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To G. R. Waterhouse   10 [June 1844 – March 1845]1

Down Bromley Kent

10th

My dear Waterhouse

We shall be truly glad to see Mrs. Waterhouse, yourself & children on Wednesday. I am ashamed to say I forget what was the train, which we agreed you were start by: but please let it be, the train which leaves the Bricklayer’s Arms at 2o ’ 20’ & which reaches Croydon at about 3. olock.— My Phaeton (one chesnut horse) shall be there (& shall wait for one later train)

I send the card again as it may be useful about the omnibuses: please bring it with you.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

N.B. Have mercy on people, like myself, with bad memories & put your address to every letter,—I was in despair trying to remember & search your your address.—

1
Dated from the reference to the Bricklayers’ Arms terminus of the Croydon railway, which was opened 1 May 1844; the passenger service to Croydon ended in March 1845 (Course 1962, p. 71). CD arrived back at Down from a visit to Maer, the Wedgwood family home, and Shrewsbury on 30 May (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix II).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 what] altered from ‘whether’
1.2 was] interl
1.3 it] above del ‘me’
1.4 about] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13852,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13852