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From Leonard Darwin   12 October [1881]1

Brompton Barracks, | Chatham.

Oct. 12

Dear Father

I shall be home on Saturday and can do anything that is wanted about the land. I never sent a telegram to Hacon, and do not understand the first 3 lines of the letter.2

Would it not be as well to send a message to Mr Laslett to ask him to be at Down on Saturday next at 5. p.m.? I could then talk about the wall.3

Your affec son | L Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin, 8 October 1881.
2
William Mackmurdo Hacon and Leonard had been corresponding about CD’s purchase from Sydney Sales of a strip of land adjacent to Down House (see letter from W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin, 11 October 1881).
3
Isaac Withers Laslett was a local builder; as part of the redevelopment of the newly acquired land, the Darwins intended to construct a wall to screen some cottages from view (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 13 September 1881 (DAR 219.9: 270)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13395,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13395