Darwin Correspondence Project

British Museum

9 April 1866

My Dear Darwin

I fear it is only as Compliment but I should be glad for many reasons if it was not

Will you come and dine with us on the 16 of May at 7. to meet Professor De. Candolle, who has promised to dine with me on that day^f1

With kindest Regard to M^rs Darwin^f2 & yourself

Ever Yours Sincerely | J. E Gray

Charles Darwin Esq | &c &c

Footnotes

f1

CD did not travel to London on 16 May to dine with Gray and Alphonse de Candolle; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 May [1866], and letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 3 June 1866.

f2

Emma Darwin.