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To H. W. Jackson   15 July 1880

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

July 15. 1880

My dear Sir,

I must write a line to thank you sincerely for the official & for your private note, both of them extremely kind.1 I much wish that the weather had been better, & then perhaps I could have made the visit more agreeable to your members. I was very tired in the evening, but none the worse next day.

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin.

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Neither of the notes has been found, but they were evidently written to thank CD for having welcomed members and friends of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association to Down on 10 July 1880 (see letter to H. W. Jackson, 9 [July 1880] and n. 3). According to Emma Darwin, there were ‘violent showers every hour’ (letter to H. E. Litchfield, [11 July 1880] (DAR 219.9: 242)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12652,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12652