From H. N. Moseley 7 November 1876
Exeter College | Oxford.
Nov 7. 1876.
My dear Sir
Very many thanks for your kind letter and invitation to dine with you and sleep a night at your house.1
It will be the very greatest honour and pleasure to me to have the opportunity of a personal interview with you.
I attend a meeting of the Linnean Society on Nov 16th in London. If the 17th or 18th would suit you I could come then or I would come at any other time which might be more convenient.
I am sorry if from my letter I led you to suppose that I believed in any such thing as Physiognomy2 I merely thought that observations on the details of the face made by physiognomists for their own purposes might possibly prove interesting by drawing attention to features occurring in Japanese faces which might otherwise be overlooked.
I am | yours truly | H N Moseley.
Charles Darwin Esq FRS.
Footnotes
Summary
Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10665
- From
- Henry Nottidge Moseley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Exeter College, Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 255
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10665,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10665.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24