To T. H. Huxley 20 March [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 20th
My dear Huxley
Hooker comes here on Thursday April 5th & stays till Monday2 Will you come with him; it would give me great pleasure if you will.
Mrs. Darwin desires me to say how happy we should be if you could persuade Mrs. Huxley to come also. I believe our Trains change on April 1st. & I will let Hooker know on 1st or 2d & he will inform you, if I hear that you can come. I hope to be able to send my carriage to Bromley to meet you.— Supposing that you are much engaged & cannot spare time would you come down on Saturday & spend the Sunday with us.—
Do come on Thursday if you conveniently can
Ever most truly yours | C. Darwin
Perhaps you would bring my M.S. Skulls Drawings & Book with you.—3
I am so poor a devil that you must make up your mind to be dull here.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3093
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 160)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3093,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3093.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8