To Robert Monsey Rolfe 10 November [1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
Nov. 10th
My dear Lord Cranworth
I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for the draft for 10100 for the Down charities.2
We are very much obliged for your kind invitation for Saturday; not to accept your & Lady Cranworths kindness is a real loss of pleasure to me, but I find by dear-bought experience that going out at present knocks me up for so many days, that I must forego the pleasure.— I can only hope that I shall not always be compelled to live the life of a hermit.
With our best thanks pray believe me | Your Lordships | Truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks RMR for contribution to Down charities. Declines invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2357
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2357,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2357.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
