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To John Murray   13 June [1880]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station, | Orpington. S.E.R.

June 13th

My dear Mr Murray

The Bearer of this note is my son-in-law, Mr Litchfield of the Ecclesiastical Commission, who wishes to speak to you about a map to interest some working men, whom he is going to take down to Cambridge for a day’s excursion.—2

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the date of the Working Men’s College summer excursion to Cambridge (see n. 2, below).
2
Richard Buckley Litchfield was a clerk to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and also taught at the Working Men’s College in London. The college summer excursion for 1880 took place on 11 July and was to Cambridge, where Litchfield arranged a dinner at Trinity College (R. B. Litchfield, Record, personal and domestic, vol. 1 (DAR 248/1), p. 136).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9491,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9491