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To J. W. Clark   12 November 1877

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

Nov 12th 1877

My dear Mr Clark,

I thank you cordially for your very kind letter, and I hope that you will express to the President how much obliged I am for the honour of his invitation.1

I should have enjoyed extremely accepting it, but I really cannot, for I am not able to spend an evening even at home without lying down to rest, and after the excitement of the day I shall be much tired.

Believe me, | Yours sincerely obliged, | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The letter has not been found; the president of the Philosophical Society at Cambridge University, George Downing Liveing, had invited CD to a dinner on the evening of the presentation to CD of an honorary LLD (see also letter to T. H. Huxley, 19 November [1877] and n. 2). Clark was a secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 3 (1876–80): 230).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11232F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11232F