To R. I. Murchison 24 [June 1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
24th
My dear Sir Roderick
I am extremely sorry that you shd. have had so much trouble about my signature.2 But I am sure you will at once excuse me, when you hear that I have had one of my children dangerously ill with Diptheria, & another now sickening with much fever.—3
In Haste | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter to R. I. Murchison, 19 June [1858], and by CD’s reference to the ill-health of his children.
CD refers to Murchison’s petition to keep the natural history collections of the British Museum on the same site as the library and other collections (see letter to R. I. Murchison, 19 June [1858]). The petition is transcribed in Appendix VI.
See the letters to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1858], and to W. D. Fox, 24 June [1858].
Summary
Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.
One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2292
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2292,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2292.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
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