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To Francis Galton   [1 March 1879?]1

6. Queen Anne St

Saturday

My dear Galton

If it would not bore you, can you come to luncheon here on Monday at 1 oclock; as it will be my best chance of seeing you.—2 I have been extremely sorry to hear that you have not been well of late, & that you are soon going abroad—3

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The date is conjectured from the placement of this letter in Pearson 1914–30, 2: 193, between letters dated 22 March 1879 and 30 April 1879, and by the dates of CD’s spring 1879 visit to his brother (see n. 2, below). The only Saturday during this visit was 1 March.
2
CD visited the home of Erasmus Alvey Darwin at 6 Queen Anne street, London, from 27 February to 5 March 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
No other mention of a trip abroad by Galton or a visit by him to CD in London around this time has been found. Galton’s next recorded visit to CD was on 26 April 1879 at Down (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11911,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11911