From D. F. Nevill 14 [February 1875]1
Dangstein. Petersfield
14th
My dear Sir
I am coming up to London, I hope, on the 20th for about 10 days Is there any chance of our meeting— I should so extremely like and appreciate a personal acquaintance with yourself tho I much fear you will find me dreadfully wanting—for I have to mix so much in a frivolous world that tho my delight is in studies like those you undertake yet I cannot give very much attention to them therefore if we do meet I hope you will make full allowance for my shortcomings and blunders— I have begun to read your sons article in the “Fortnightly” but it appears to me, tho very interesting, abstruse—2 perhaps later on I might understand it Lady Hawkshaw who is a neighbour of ours and in some way connected with your family tells me that you generally come to London in Feby and that is why I propose seeing you.3 I would call on you—anywhere or at any hour—if you would prefer it
Ys most truly | D Nevill
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire: Post Office directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire. Post Office directory of Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight. London: Kelly & Co. 1848–75.
Summary
Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9854
- From
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Dangstein, Petersfield
- Source of text
- DAR 172: 30
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9854,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9854.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23