To R. I. Murchison 24 [June 1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
24th
My dear Sir Roderick
I am extremely sorry that you shd. have had so much trouble about my signature.2 But I am sure you will at once excuse me, when you hear that I have had one of my children dangerously ill with Diptheria, & another now sickening with much fever.—3
In Haste | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.
One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2292
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2292,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2292.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7