Dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your very kind note & offer of assistance.2 My plans may be unfortunately altered, for my daughter has a low fever, & unless every shade of anxiety is removed by her almost entire recovery, I should not like to leave home.—
If it would not be selfish, I think the plan which would cause least trouble would be for you, if not asking too great a favour, to reserve me rooms in a near college; & then if I am prevented coming I will promise to write 2 or 3 days before the meeting, so that the rooms would be at your disposal for some one else.—3
Believe me with many thanks for all your kindness & most obliging invitation | Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | ⟨C. Darwin⟩4
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2822A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on