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From St G. J. Mivart   [25 June 1870?]1

7 North Bank | N.W.

Saturday— 3. p.m.

My dear Sir,

I have just got your note & hasten to say I shall be very pleased to see you at, or after, half past nine tomorrow—2 by that my breakfast, church &c will be over & I shall have my whole morning at your disposal—

You need not fear causing me any inconvenience as had I not heard from you I should have been at home from 912 a.m till 1. p.m tomorrow— So that whatever time happens to suit you, between those hours, will be equally convenient to me.

I am very sorry to hear the cause which makes your movements uncertain and at any time you wish to see me I shall be very pleased to call upon you if that will be more convenient.3

Believe me | Dear Sir | Your’s very truly | St G Mivart.

1
The date is conjectured from the broad mourning border of the stationery and the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. G. Gascoyen, 7 July 1870 (Correspondence vol. 18). Mivart’s mother, Caroline Georgina Mivart, died in the first quarter of 1870 (BMD (Death index)). CD was in London from 24 June to 1 July 1870 (see Correspondence vol. 18, Appendix II). CD probably asked Mivart for information on the platysma muscle when the two met; Mivart then asked George Green Gascoyen to supply information for CD, which Gascoyen did after making observations for a week. The only Sunday during CD’s visit was 26 June.
2
CD’s note has not been found.
3
CD probably told Mivart that his movements were uncertain because of his health. In May 1870 he had written that a tour of the Woodwardian Museum in Cambridge left him exhausted for days (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5927,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5927