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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   27 May 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 27, 1872

[To a gentleman inviting him to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and giving directions at length from London to his house in Kent. ‘… I have heard from Mr. Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here …’]1

Footnotes

CD refers to Richard Buckley Litchfield; the correspondent has not been identified.

Summary

Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8355
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 22)
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8355,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8355.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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