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To ?   7 August [1843–68?]

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Declines invitation to ride because he is "so very subject to headache".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  7 Aug [1843-68]
Classmark:  Daniel V. Grossman (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13867

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  • 12). The letter may have been written to Robert Monsey Rolfe (Lord Cranworth) or Philip Henry Stanhope (Lord Stanhope), both of whom had country seats near Down. For CD’s relationship with Stanhope, see ‘Recollections’, p. 361. CD’s doctor ordered him to ride daily in 1866 ( Correspondence vol. 14, letter to George Bentham, …
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