To Roland Trimen 24 December [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec. 24th
My dear Sir
If you are not engaged, will you give me the great pleasure of your company here next Saturday, & stay the Sunday with us. We dine at 7 oclock.—2
You would have to come by Train to Bromley, but I am sorry to say this place is six miles from the Station.
I am bound to tell you that my health is very uncertain & I am continually liable to bad days, & even on my best days I cannot talk long with anyone; but if you will put up with the best will to see as much of you as I can, I hope that you will come.—
Pray believe me, | my dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the origin of species. Addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1920. Roland Trimen, 1840–1916. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 91: xviii–xxvii.
Trimen, Roland. 1868. On some remarkable mimetic analogies among African butterflies. [Read 5 March 1868.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26 (1868–70): 497–522.
Summary
Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5739
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Roland Trimen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 61)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5739,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5739.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
