To Emily Harriet Stanhope 9 August [1849]1
Down
Augt. 9th.
Dear Lady Mahon2
Mr. Darwin is very much obliged for the honour of your Ladyships kind invitation for Thursday, & will have much pleasure in accepting it.3
I beg to remain | Your Ladyships | Truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Charles Lyell, [2 September 1849] (Correspondence vol. 4).
Emily Harriet Stanhope was the wife of Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (Complete peerage).
In 1849, the Thursday following 9 August was 16 August. In his letter to Charles Lyell, [2 September 1849], CD described the dinner that took place at Viscount Mahon’s ancestral home at Chevening, Kent (Correspondence vol. 4). Chevening is about three miles south-east of Down.
Summary
Accepts EHS’s invitation for Thursday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1249F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Emily Harriet Kerrison, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope/Emily Harriet Stanhope, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kent History and Library Centre (U1590 C481/18)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1249F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1249F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)
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