To ? 27 May 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 27, 1872

[To a gentleman inviting him to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and giving directions at length from London to his house in Kent. ‘… I have heard from Mr. Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here …’]¹

LS incomplete²

CD refers to Richard Buckley Litchfield; the correspondent has not been identified.

The original letter is complete and is described in the sale catalogue as being two pages long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8355,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8355

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Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".

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Record number: DCP-LETT-8355
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Unidentified
Date: 27 May 1872
Sent from: Down
Source of text: R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 22)
Physical description: 2pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20.

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