To Josiah Mason 22 September 1880

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

Sept 22^d 1880

M^r. Ch. Darwin regrets much that it is impossible for him to have the honour & pleasure of accepting Sir J. Mason’s invitation to Luncheon on October 1^st. or for him to attend Prof. Huxleys opening Address.—¹

For CD’s invitation to the opening of Mason Science College, Birmingham, on 1 October 1880, see the letter from Josiah Mason, [before 22 September 1880]. The opening was marked by an address by Thomas Henry Huxley titled ‘Science and culture’, and printed in Nature, 7 October 1880, pp. 545–8.

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0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12722,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12722

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Sends formal regrets that he cannot accept luncheon invitation or attend Huxley’s address [at opening of Mason College, Birmingham].

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Record number: DCP-LETT-12722
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Josiah Mason
Date: 22 Sept 1880
Sent from: Down
Source of text: The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Physical description: AL 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 28.

To Josiah Mason 22 September 1880

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