Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
April 23d 1881
Dear Sir
I am obliged for your wish to hear me lecture; but I never gave a lecture in my life & I am too old to begin: nor indeed would the state of my health permit me.—1
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13135,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on