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To H. N. Moseley   2 May 1880

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

May 2d. 1880

My dear Mr Moseley

If you are disengaged will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here on Sunday the 9th— The Galtons1 & Andrew Clark will be here.— Your best plan will be, if you can come, will be to start from Charing X by the 5°. 2′ Train on Saturday evening, which reaches Orpington a little before 6° & I will endeavour to send a carriage to meet you.

If you do not object to going on Box there will almost certainly be a place. Or you can take a fly.2

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

2
The box was the elevated seat of a carriage on which the coachman sat; a fly was a light, covered carriage. The station at Orpington was about four miles from CD’s home at Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12594H,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12594H