To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]1
6 Queen Anne St.
My dear Falconer
Sincere thanks for your very kind note.2 Whenever I come to London, which is seldom enough, I always look forward to a talk with you as a treat. I had intended trying my luck with another call. I doubt whether I shall be able this afternoon, but to-morrow (i.e Friday) I will call, perhaps about eleven but anyhow before one o’clock. If I do not appear you may understand that I have one of my attacks of sickness.
What you tell me about the horses, and about your readiness to believe (though this is a dreadful fib) makes me very eager to come,3 not that this was necessary to draw me to Park Crescent.
My dear Falconer | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3539
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 24
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3539,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3539.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
