To Robert Monsey Rolfe?1 15 August [1860]
Down Bromley Kent
Augt. 15th.—
My dear Lord
We are very much obliged for your Lordship’s kind invitation to dinner on Saturday, but I am sorry to say that my health still prevents me going out to a distance in the evening;—and a very great loss it is to me in this instance.—
With our best thanks, I beg leave to remain | Your Lordships | Truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Declines his Lordship’s invitation to dinner for reasons of health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2897A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (7 November 1992)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2897A,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2897A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8