From F. T. Buckland   13 December 1864

37, Albany St. | Regents Park. | N.W.

Dec 13th. 1864

Dear Mr Darwin.

Thanks for your kind note   very sorry to hear you are an invalid.1 So therefore Mahomet must go to the mountain— When I return from Galway I will with your permission run down some day & bring you what I have to show.2 General William’s late 2 Life Guards3 has promised me a dead Otter Hound

Yours ever | most truly | Frank Buckland

2
See letter from F. T. Buckland, [before 11 December 1864] and n. 5. No visit from Buckland is recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242).
3
See letter to F. T. Buckland, 11 December [1864] and n. 4. Buckland refers to Lewis Duncan Williams, who retired as a colonel from the Second Regiment of Life Guards in 1857, and obtained the rank of major-general in 1860 (Hart’s army list).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4714,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4714