To Ellen Frances Lubbock [26 September 1869?]1
Down. | Kent. S.E.
Sunday
My dear Lady Lubbock
I shd have liked extremely to have come to luncheon & accepted your kind invitation, but I have been talking so much to Dr. Hooker that I have no strength left.—2 Dr Hooker desires me to thank you & to say that he will call in the afternoon.
Pray believe me | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is conjectured from the style of the address, with ‘Bromley’ deleted from the printed letterhead, which is similar to that used by CD between April 1869 and May 1871, and from the fact that 26 September is the only Sunday in this period on which it is likely that Joseph Dalton Hooker was visiting Down on his own.
Hooker arrived at Down on 25 September (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 September 1869).
Summary
Would have liked to come to lunch, but has been talking so much to Hooker that he has no strength left.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6669
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ellen Frances Hordern/Ellen Frances Lubbock
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6669,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6669.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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