From Leonard Horner 7 April [1838]1
My Dear Darwin
I learned yesterday that the Factory Amendment Act is to be brought into the House of Commons by the Govt on Monday, and it is material that I should be in the house. This obliges me to postpone the pleasure of your company, but I hope Wednesday will suit you equally well for the same kind of visit.
Yours faithfully | Leonard Horner2
2. Bedford Place7 April
Footnotes
Bibliography
Colp, Ralph, Jr. 1980. ‘I was born a naturalist’: Charles Darwin’s 1838 notes about himself. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 35: 8–39.
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.
Summary
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-408
- From
- Leonard Horner
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bedford Place, 2
- Source of text
- DAR 210.8: 1
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 408,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-408.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
