To M. L. Pennington 24 October 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dear Mrs. Pennington
I have the pleasure to send my signature, which you wish for & which you can cut off from the foot of this note1
Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
October 24th. 1878.—
Footnotes
No letter from Pennington requesting CD’s autograph has been found, but she had met CD at Leith Hill Place, Surrey, on 10 August 1878 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma mentioned the visit in a letter to William Erasmus Darwin of 11 August 1878, noting, ‘She is a nice simple mannered woman but a tremendous lion-hunter’ (DAR 219.1: 114).
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11727F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Margaret Landell Sharpe/Margaret Landell Pennington
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (25 January 2022, lot 132)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11727F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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