To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
| Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Henrietta and Elizabeth on 24 November ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In mid-October CD …
- … and probably Leonard and Horace), arrived on 17 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [24 or 31 October 1859] , DAR …
- … the son-in-law of Elizabeth Drysdale ( Emma Darwin (1904), p. 184). See n. 7, below. CD …
- … Darwins were in Ilkley and the reference to four or five weeks’ stay. CD left for Ilkey, in Yorkshire, where he was planning to visit the hydropathic establishment, on 2 October 1859, and left there for London on 9 December ( Correspondence vol. 7, Appendix II). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] ( Correspondence vol. 7), CD wrote that his family were arriving on Monday, which would have been 17 October, and staying for three or four weeks. Emma …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Pew, Elizabeth | (1) |
