To Roland Trimen   [16 March 1868]1

4. Chester Place | Regents Park | N.W.

Monday

My dear Mr. Trimen

Would it suit you to come & lunch here at 1. oclock on Friday or Saturday, or indeed almost any day; or if luncheon-time does not suit you, if you will you will tell me at what hour you will call I will be at home.— I hear that you had a brilliant night at Linn. Soc. & I regretted so much that I could not come.2

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin.

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Roland Trimen, 20 March [1868]. The first Monday before 20 March 1868 was 16 March.
2
CD refers to the paper, ‘On some remarkable mimetic analogies among African butterflies’ (R. Trimen 1868), that Trimen delivered at the 5 March 1868 meeting of the Linnean Society. For remarks on the paper and the discussion that followed, see the letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 March [1868].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 luncheon-time] above del ‘that’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6015,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6015