From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1875?]1
45, Charles Street
26th
My dear Mr Darwin
I am more grieved than I can say at having missed you but I do hope when you come next time you will give me due warning2
I would willingly run down to you for an hour if you are ever willing to receive me but perhaps you are too busy— However I do hope we may meet somehow
Footnotes
The month and year are conjectured from the less formal salutation that indicates that Nevill and CD had met, and by an archivist’s mark ‘1875’ on the front of the letter. Nevill met CD on 4 May 1875 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
CD had been in London from 10 to 20 December 1875 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). In July, CD had told Nevill that he had no plans to be in London until late autumn (see letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875]).
Summary
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8133
- From
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Charles St, 45
- Source of text
- DAR 172: 32
- Physical description
- AL 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8133,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
letter
