To Charles Babbage [October 1839 – August 1842]
12 Upper Gower St
Friday
My dear Mr. Babbage
I am very much obliged to you for your several cards which you have so kindly sent us, & which I should have had greater pleasure in accepting than any other parties, had not I found by dear-bought experience that my health will not at present stand going out in the evening.
I am going to take a liberty, which I trust you will excuse; it is to ask permission for my sister who is staying with us to accompany my brother, whom I understand you have also kindly asked, to your party tomorrow evening: Mrs. Darwin not being well enough to go out at present.—
Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very truly obliged | C. Darwin
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-474
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Babbage
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 37191: 296)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 474,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-474.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2