From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]1
9, St. Marks’ Crescent N.W.
Sept. 5th.
Dear Darwin
It will give me great pleasure to accept your kind invitation for next Saturday & Sunday, and my wife would very much like to come too, & will if possible.2 Unfortunately there is a new servant coming that very day, & there is a baby at the mischievous age of a year and a quarter to be left in somebody’s care;3—but I dare say it will be managed somehow.
I will drop a line on Friday to say if we are coming the time you mention.
Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Raby, Peter. 2001. Alfred Russel Wallace: a life. London: Chatto & Windus.
Summary
Accepts invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6350
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B67
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6350,” accessed on 25 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6350.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16