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To Hugh Cuming1   [4 November 1849]2

Down Farnborough Kent

Sunday

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note. I will come on Wednesday about 9 oclock. Many thanks for your kind invitation to Breakfast, but my stomach is so particular, that I am afraid to go about before eating.—

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The conjectured recipient is based on letter to Hugh Cuming, [October? 1849], in which CD stated he would return specimens to Cuming in early November.
2
The conjectured date is based on CD’s trip to London to attend the council meeting of the Geological Society on Wednesday, 7 November 1849 (Council Minute Books, Geological Society Archives).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1265,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1265