To W. W. Gull 12 July 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 12th. 1881
Dear Sir William Gull
Your very kind invitation to dinner on Augt 3d is a great honour to me, & I should have very much liked to have accepted it.1 But I have not dined out for many years, & I really have not strength in the evening to withstand the excitement and fatigue of a party. This has often been a great loss of pleasure to me, & on no occasion a greater loss than in the present instance.—
I beg leave to remain | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Declines dinner invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13243F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Withey Gull, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Private collection
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13243F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 29
