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To William Ogle   [4 December 1874, 10 December 1875, 17 December 1875, or 12 January 1877]1

2. Bryanston St— Portman St

Friday

Dear Ogle

I called on you this morning but you were out. If you are so inclined will you come & lunch here on Sunday at 1 o’clock? Do not trouble yourself to answer, but if the spirit moves you do come.

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The possible dates are established by the ‘Down’ headed notepaper on which this letter is written (the printed address was crossed out) and by the handwritten address. The printed notepaper is of a sort that CD used from November 1874, and his daughter Henrietta Emma Litchfield lived at 2 Bryanston Street, London, from 1872; by February 1878, the address had changed to 4 Bryanston Street as a result of renumbering (Correspondence vol. 26, letter to James Torbitt, [28 February 1878]). Between November 1874 and February 1878, CD made three visits to 2 Bryanston Street; the Fridays during these visits on which this letter could have been written are 4 December 1874, 10 and 17 December 1875, and 12 January 1877.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Portman St] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’
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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9219,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9219