To Philip Henry Stanhope 30 July [1852]

Down Farnborough Kent

July 30^th

My dear Lord

I am much obliged for your Lordships very kind invitation to Chevening for the 3^d of August, but I am sorry to say that I have friends in my house & cannot do myself the honour of accepting your kindness.— I beg to remain | Your Lordships | Faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13844,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13844

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Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13844
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date: 30 July [1852]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5.

To Philip Henry Stanhope 30 July [1852]

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