To Sara Darwin [1 March 1878] 1
4. Bryanston St
Friday
My dear Sara
I thank you warmly for your most kind & affectionate note.2 Emma did think of offering ourselves to you, but I dreaded the length of the journey & I wished to see Dr. Clark.—3 I am somewhat better but much to boast of.— At some future time we hope to come to you, & our visits to William have been to me the greatest pleasure in the year, & now we shall have the additional pleasure of seeing you there.4
Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the date of CD’s visit to London; CD stayed with his daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield, at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 27 February to 5 March 1878, ‘on account of Giddiness’ (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The only Friday in this period was 1 March.
Sara Darwin’s letter has not been found.
Andrew Clark was CD’s physician.
Sara and William Erasmus Darwin were married on 29 November 1877 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
Summary
Hopes to visit [Sara and William] later in the year.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11392
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Sara Sedgwick/Sara Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 4
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 150
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11392,” accessed on 14 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11392.xml
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