Letter
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Summary
Sorry to hear CD ill.
On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.
Transcription
37, Albany St. | Regents Park. | N.W.
Dec 13th. 1864
Dear Mr Darwin.
Thanks for your kind note very sorry to hear you are an invalid.f1 So therefore Mahomet must go to the mountain— When I return from Galway I will with your permission run down some day & bring you what I have to show.f2 General William’s late 2 Life Guardsf3 has promised me a dead Otter Hound
Yours ever | most truly | Frank Buckland
Footnotes
- f1
- See the letter to F. T. Buckland, 11 December [1864].
- f2
- See letter from F. T. Buckland, [before 11 December 1864] and n. 5. No visit from Buckland is recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242).
- f3
- See letter to F. T. Buckland, 11 December [1864] and n. 4. Buckland refers to Lewis Duncan Williams, who retired as a colonel from the Second Regiment of Life Guards in 1857, and obtained the rank of major-general in 1860 (Hart’s army list).