From Charles Wentworth Dilke   24 April 1866

76, Sloane Street SW.

24 April 1866

Dear Sir

Mr. & Madame de Candolle1 dine with my Mother in Law2 & myself on Thursday the 17th of May at a quarter before seven. If Mrs Darwin & yourself would give us the pleasure of your company we should be pleased.3

Yours truly | C Wentworth Dilke

C Darwin Esq

2
Dilke’s mother-in-law, Caroline Augusta Chatfield, had lived at Dilke’s London residence since his marriage in 1840 (Gwynn and Tuckwell 1917, 1: 8).
3
Dilke refers to Emma Darwin. CD and Emma did not attend the dinner. See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 3 June 1866.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5065,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5065