From Charles Wentworth Dilke 24 April 1866
76, Sloane Street SW.
24 April 1866
Dear Sir
Mr. & Madame de Candolle1 dine with my Mother in Law2 & myself on Thursday the 17th of May at a quarter before seven. If Mrs Darwin & yourself would give us the pleasure of your company we should be pleased.3
Yours truly | C Wentworth Dilke
C Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Dilke refers to Alphonse de Candolle and his wife, Jeanne-Victoire-Laure de Candolle.
Dilke’s mother-in-law, Caroline Augusta Chatfield, had lived at Dilke’s London residence since his marriage in 1840 (Gwynn and Tuckwell 1917, 1: 8).
Dilke refers to Emma Darwin. CD and Emma did not attend the dinner. See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 3 June 1866.
Summary
Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5065
- From
- Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Sloane St, 76
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 181
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5065,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5065.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
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