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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Ernst Haeckel   2 September 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Sep 2. 1879

My dear Haeckel,

I shall be delighted to see you here on any day at any hour. But would it not be the best plan for you to sleep here? There is a train which leaves Charing Cross for Orpington Station, where at 4.54 I would have a carriage waiting for you, and you could return as early as you liked next morning.1 As I cannot talk long with anyone I believe that I should by this means be able to see more of you than if you came down here in the middle of the day. But pray do exactly what suits you best, & let me hear.

Until we meet, yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 30 August 1879. Haeckel stayed at Down House from 5 to 6 September 1879 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Summary

Invites EH to spend night at Down.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12212
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49 [A 9903])
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12212,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12212.xml

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