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To Robert Monsey Rolfe?1   15 August [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Augt. 15th.—

My dear Lord

We are very much obliged for your Lordship’s kind invitation to dinner on Saturday, but I am sorry to say that my health still prevents me going out to a distance in the evening;—and a very great loss it is to me in this instance.—

With our best thanks, I beg leave to remain | Your Lordships | Truly obliged | Charles Darwin

Endorsement: ‘1860’

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The recipient is inferred from the reference to ‘your Lordship’. Rolfe was created Baron Cranworth in 1850. He lived at Holwood House in Keston, Kent, a few miles from Down. See also Correspondence vol. 7, letter to R. M. Rolfe, 10 November [1858].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2897A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2897A