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Summary
Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.
Transcription
76, Sloane Street SW.
24 April 1866
Dear Sir
Mr. & Madame de Candollef1 dine with my Mother in Lawf2 & myself on Thursday the 17th of May at a quarter before seven. If Mrs Darwin & yourself would give us the pleasure of your company we should be pleased.f3
Yours truly | C Wentworth Dilke
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
- f1
- Dilke refers to Alphonse de Candolle and his wife, Jeanne-Victoire-Laure de Candolle.
- f2
- Dilke’s mother-in-law, Caroline A. Duncombe Chatfield, had lived at Dilke’s London residence since his marriage in 1840 (Gwynn and Tuckwell 1917, 1: 8).
- f3
- Dilke refers to Emma Darwin. CD and Emma did not attend the dinner. See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 3 June 1866.