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From Philip Henry Stanhope   28 July 1862

Chevening

July 28. 1862

My dear Mr. Darwin

Would you & Mrs. Darwin do us the pleasure of coming over here early on the afternoon of Thursday the 7th. & staying to dinner.1

If instead of returning at night you would sleep at Chevening we should be all the better pleased2

yrs. very sincerely | Stanhope

1
No reply to this letter has been found; however, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records for 7 August 1862: ‘went to London to see children and returned’. (Horace, Elizabeth, and Henrietta Emma Darwin were at that time staying in London because of Leonard Darwin’s illness (Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178); Francis and George Howard Darwin were staying with William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862]).)
2
Chevening, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was the seat of the Stanhope family.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3669,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3669