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To W. C. Marshall   29 September [1876]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Sept. 29th

Dear Marshall

Mr. L. will meet you here on Tuesday.—2 You had better write direct to him, appointing hour, & address him

“Mr. Laslett

Builder

Farnborough

Kent.”

We leave home early on Wednesday morning & therefore we cannot ask you to sleep here, & as you seem so busy I daresay it wd be inconvenient for you to do so.3

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. C. Marshall, 19 September 1876.
2
CD wanted Marshall to design an addition to Down House (see letter to W. C. Marshall, 19 September 1876); Isaac Withers Laslett was a local builder.
3
The Darwins left Down on Wednesday 4 October 1876, staying at Leith Hill Place, Surrey from 4 to 7 October, and at William Erasmus Darwin’s house in Southampton from 7 to 20 October (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10624,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10624