To Lawson Tait 25 March 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
March 25th
Dear Sir
I am much obliged by your kind note.1 I should be very glad to make your personal acquaintance & no introduction was in the least necessary. I fear however that we cannot meet just at present. I have long been much out of health, & lately I have been working very hard & am quite knocked up; at the best of times I cannot converse with any one for more than half an hour or so; & at present I should be incapable even of this much exertion. Therefore I beg you to propose some future Sunday. But I am going on the 31st or 1st for a week to my brother’s house 6 Queen Anne St Cavendish Square, for complete rest,2 & expect that two or three days will set me up. Down is rather an awkward place to reach, & if it would suit you better to come to London on the 4th or on one of the few succeeding days, I should have great pleasure in seeing you. I would suggest your coming to luncheon, & then we could have some talk afterwards But in this case please to inform me that I may keep myself fresh
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9902
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp (photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9902,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9902.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23