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To G. J. Romanes   11 [May 1878]1

Basset Southampton

11th.

My dear Romanes,

I have just heard from my wife that the Huxleys come to us on the 18th for the Sunday, & it has occurred to me that you perhaps wd like to meet them & the Lichfields.—2 I do not know whether Frank will then have returned3

Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The month and year are established by the reference to Romanes’s visit (see n. 2, below) and by the address; CD was at Bassett, Southampton, from 27 April to 13 May 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
2
In 1878, 18 May fell on Saturday. Emma Darwin recorded Romanes’s arrival at Down on that day (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma did not record the visit of either Thomas Henry and Henrietta Anne Huxley or Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma Litchfield.
3
Francis Darwin returned from Wales on 27 May 1878 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11502,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11502