From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]1
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
April 8th.
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your kind note. I shall visit you on the 18th.2
I am sorry that I cannot get to Down the previous evening as I have to take the chair at a public dinner. But I can reach Orpington at 8.36 a.m. on Sunday morning, no doubt in time for breakfast
It will give me great pleasure to meet Prof. Huxley, with whom already I have a slight personal acquaintance.3
Thanks for your offer of the carriage. As the hour on a Sunday morning would be very inconvenient for your man, and as there might be no flies about then I should be glad if you would order one for me.
Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait
I enclose a newspaper account of my little paper4
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9918
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 6
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9918,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9918.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23