To Sara Darwin   [1 March 1878] 1

4. Bryanston St

Friday

My dear Sara

I thank you warmly for your most kind & affectionate note.2 Emma did think of offering ourselves to you, but I dreaded the length of the journey & I wished to see Dr. Clark.—3 I am somewhat better but much to boast of.— At some future time we hope to come to you, & our visits to William have been to me the greatest pleasure in the year, & now we shall have the additional pleasure of seeing you there.4

Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin

1
The date is established by the date of CD’s visit to London; CD stayed with his daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield, at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 27 February to 5 March 1878, ‘on account of Giddiness’ (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The only Friday in this period was 1 March.
2
Sara Darwin’s letter has not been found.
3
Andrew Clark was CD’s physician.
4
Sara and William Erasmus Darwin were married on 29 November 1877 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 4. Bryanston St] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11392,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11392