From Leonard Darwin 12 October [1881]1
Brompton Barracks, | Chatham.
Oct. 12
Dear Father
I shall be home on Saturday and can do anything that is wanted about the land. I never sent a telegram to Hacon, and do not understand the first 3 lines of the letter.2
Would it not be as well to send a message to Mr Laslett to ask him to be at Down on Saturday next at 5. p.m.? I could then talk about the wall.3
Your affec son | L Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin, 8 October 1881.
William Mackmurdo Hacon and Leonard had been corresponding about CD’s purchase from Sydney Sales of a strip of land adjacent to Down House (see letter from W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin, 11 October 1881).
Isaac Withers Laslett was a local builder; as part of the redevelopment of the newly acquired land, the Darwins intended to construct a wall to screen some cottages from view (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 13 September 1881 (DAR 219.9: 270)).
Summary
Will be home on Saturday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13395
- From
- Leonard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Brompton Barracks, Chatham
- Source of text
- DAR 186: 36
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13395,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 29
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