From Benjamin Collins Brodie 9 June 1870
Cowley house, | Oxford.
June 9. 1870.
Dear Sir.
As I hear that you may possibly come to Oxford at the approaching Commemoration for the purpose of receiving the degree, which we hope to have the honour of conferring upon you.1 I venture to ask whether you would come and stay with me and make my house your home by bringing with you Mrs Darwin and your daughter.2 I have, I know, no particular right to make such a request. But I hope the common bond of scientific pursuits will justify the freedom which I take, and also so many of your friends are my friends also that I cannot but say it will be a great pleasure to me, if you will allow me to become known to you.3
I am, | very truly yours | BC Brodie
Charles Darwin Esqr.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7225
- From
- Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 315
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7225,” accessed on 10 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7225.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
