My dear Sir

I have to come to London next Thursday & if it would be perfectly convenient I should very much like to have half-an-hour’s conversation with you on Friday morning & see your skulls & any birds which you may have.— Would you be so kind as to take the trouble to send me one line to say whether this would suit you; if not I must defer my call till some other opportunity.¹ Further sh^d. you think me very unreasonable proposing to leave the Great Northern Station at so early an hour as 10 oclock (if there be a Train for I have lost my Bradshaw, & have only a very old one) for I have a good deal to do, & must return home on the same afternoon.

Pray forgive this trouble & believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin