Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard
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CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
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Down Farnborough Kent
Tuesday
My dear Owen
As you were so kind as to say that I might propose myself to tea to you (it being more
wholesome to me than Dinner) I will, if it chance to prove quite convenient to you, come
about 7
My stomach fails so often & so suddenly that to my sorrow, I am never certain of an appointment. if I do not appear by 8 olock, you will understand that my stomach has failed me.
Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin
If I do not hear I shall understand that I am to come
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The date is based on the broad mourning border, characteristic of the stationery CD used in 1849. - +
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The address of Erasmus Alvey Darwin, with whom CD stayed when in London.