To W. A. Knight   22 August [1867]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Aug 22nd.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your very kind & hospitable invitation for the British Association at Dundee.2 But I am sorry to say I shall not be able to have the pleasure3

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. A. Knight, 20 August 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
The British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting for 1867 in Dundee from 4 to 11 September (Report of the 37th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science  (1867): lxxiii).
The remainder of the letter has been excised.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5614F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5614F