To W. D. Fox   [10 February 1863]

My dear Fox

Your note has been forwarded here, where we have all been staying for a week.¹ I have been bad enough of late & came here to see whether a change w^d. do me some good & it has succeeded.— I suppose from your note that you arrive at M^r Woodd’s on Wednesday Evening.— ² We return home on Friday (possibly, but improbably on Saturday—) & leave this house at 2^o30^’ for the Train.—

Now would it suit you to come here to lunch at 1^o or 1^o15^’ on Friday; or on Thursday, but on that day Emma will probably be out.— I do hope you will be able to come for I shall be so sincerely glad to see you.— Can you come to Down; we sh^d. be very glad; but my stomach has got to such a pitch that I can seldom stay, not even with nearest relations, for more than half-hour at a time. Let me have a line, that I may be sure to be at home, whenever you can come.—

My dear old friend | Ever yours | C. Darwin