To Charles Edward and Mary Kingford Mudie 10 December [1842–5 or 1855–68]¹

Down Bromley Kent

Dec. 10^th.

M^r Darwin presents his compliments to M^r & M^rs. Mudie & is much obliged for the honour of their invitation. M^r. Darwin fears that he cannot come up to London on that day, otherwise he would have had much pleasure in accepting M^r & M^rs. Mudies’ kind invitation.—

The date range is established by the form of the address, which CD used from October 1842 to April 1846, and from October 1855 until March 1869.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13828,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13828

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Declines invitation.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13828
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling/Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date: 10 Dec 1842
Date: 10 Dec 1843
Date: 10 Dec 1844
Date: 10 Dec 1845
Date: 10 Dec 1855
Date: 10 Dec 1856
Date: 10 Dec 1857
Date: 10 Dec 1858
Date: 10 Dec 1859
Date: 10 Dec 1860
Date: 10 Dec 1861
Date: 10 Dec 1862
Date: 10 Dec 1863
Date: 10 Dec 1864
Date: 10 Dec 1865
Date: 10 Dec 1866
Date: 10 Dec 1867
Date: 10 Dec 1868
Sent from: Down
Source of text: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Physical description: 1p

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