To Alfred Newton [22 May 1870]1
Bull Hotel
Sunday
My dear Newton
Many thanks for your kind note.2 I intend trying to see Sedgwick tomorrow morning as I did not find him today; so if 4 will suit you to call here & pick me up we will go on together to the Museum.3
yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the dates of CD’s visit to Cambridge (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The only Sunday during CD’s trip to Cambridge from 20 to 24 May 1870 was 22 May 1870.
Newton’s letter has not been found.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.
Arranges to meet AN.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7199
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Newton
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7199,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7199.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
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