From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
1, Hyde Park Gate South, | W.
My dear Sir
There are some points in your most interesting book, on which we were wishing much to know more, when my dearest Husband died, and I could not venture to ask you to take the trouble to come to see me alone.1 I was sorry indeed to hear from Mr. Wedgewood2 that your health is so delicate as to render it fruitless to ask you to any meal. May I however hope that you will give me the pleasure of seeing you here next Sunday afternoon? Mr. Huxley and the Bishop of Natal are coming to have a quiet talk with me between 2—and 6 oclock and you shall not be teazed with any eating!3
I need scarcely add how pleased I should be to see Mrs. Darwin also should she be in town.
Truly your’s | Henrietta G Powell.
February 11. 1863.
Address | Mrs. Baden Powell | 1. Hyde Park Gate South | Kensington Gore
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3977
- From
- Henrietta Grace Smyth/Henrietta Grace Powell
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Hyde Park Gate South, 1
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3977,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3977.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11