To D. F. Nevill 19 and 21 February [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb. 19th
Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill.
I do not think that I shall be in London for some time, but whenever there, I will do myself the pleasure of calling on you if I possibly can.—2
I beg leave to remain | Your Ladyship, | Very faithfully | Charles Darwin
P.S. Feb. 21st | I beg many pardons for my stupidity in having put wrong note in envelope.3
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 and 21 February [1878]; see n. 3, below.
The letter from Nevill has not been found. CD did go to London from 27 February to 5 March 1878 ‘on account of Giddiness’ (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). According to Leonard Darwin, CD had been suffering from overwork (letter from Leonard Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 8 February 1878; DAR 219.6: 11).
The letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 and 21 February [1878], contains a postscript: ‘I beg pardon for my stupidity in having put wrong note in envelope.’ Evidently, CD mixed this letter and the Thiselton-Dyer letter up and put them in the wrong envelopes.
Summary
Will call on addressee when he is next in London.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9863F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 57940 f. 106)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9863F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9863F.xml
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