From St G. J. Mivart   31 January 1871

Thatched House Club, | St. James’s.

Janry. 31st 1871

My dear Sir

Absence from town has prevented my replying more immediately to your last very kind letter.1

On my return from Sussex last night (where I have been superintending the construction of my wigwam) I found your valued present awaiting me—2 Accept my best thanks for it but there is one thing more I want— it is that when you come to North Bank you will be kind enough to write my name in it.

I am much obliged to your son for his M.S.   as I said before, the word “dogmatic” shall not appear again.3

Once more begging you to accept my best thanks and my very kind regards I remain | My dear Sir | Your’s most truly | St Geo Mivart.

2
CD had asked John Murray to send Mivart a copy of Variation (see letter to St G. J. Mivart, 28 January [1871]). Mivart’s London address was 7 North Bank. Mivart was having a house built at Wilmshurst, Fletching, near Uckfield, in Sussex (Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7467,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7467