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To T. H. Huxley   [5 March 1880?]1

6. Queen Anne St | W.

Friday night

My dear Huxley

I want so very much to see you, that you must let me call on you on Sunday morning between 10 & 11. (i.e. if I am well) & stay a half-hour.—2 I have much to do & very little strength to do it & so I propose coming on Sunday morning.—

If I do not hear, you may expect me.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

1
The year is conjectured from the year given in Dawson 1946, p. 31, but CD was not staying at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, on the day and month given by Dawson, 3 December. The only date in 1880 on which CD could have written this letter is 5 March (see n. 2, below). In 1880, 5 March fell on a Friday.
2
CD stayed with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, from 4 to 8 March 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12513,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12513