To W. C. Marshall 19 September 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sep. 19. 76
Dear Marshall
I want some professional assistance in architecture, on a very small scale, if you are inclined to undertake the work. I wish to build this autumn, so as to be dry by early next Summer, a billiard room (25 x 21 ft) attached to my house with a bedroom & dressing room above.1 If you are willing to undertake this little work, will you be so kind as to come down here as soon as you can, to see the place etc
I remain | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Horace does not know your London address & thinks you may be in the Lakes.2
As the winter is coming on there is no time to lose.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Asks WCM to design additional rooms for Down House.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10609
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.499)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10609,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10609.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24