From Josiah Mason   [before 22 September 1880]¹

The Bailiff & Trustees of

Sir Josiah Mason’s Science College,

request the pleasure of the Company of

M^r. Charles Darwin and Lady

at the

opening Address by Professor Huxley, F.R.S.

in the Town Hall, Birmingham, at noon,

on the 1^st. of October 1880,

and at a Soiree at the College

at 8 o’clock in the evening.²

An early answer on the accompanying form is

requested, when tickets of admission will be sent.³