To D. F. Nevill   19 and 21 February [1878]1

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

Feb. 19th

Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill.

I do not think that I shall be in London for some time, but whenever there, I will do myself the pleasure of calling on you if I possibly can.—2

I beg leave to remain | Your Ladyship, | Very faithfully | Charles Darwin

P.S. Feb. 21st | I beg many pardons for my stupidity in having put wrong note in envelope.3

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 and 21 February [1878]; see n. 3, below.
2
The letter from Nevill has not been found. CD did go to London from 27 February to 5 March 1878 ‘on account of Giddiness’ (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). According to Leonard Darwin, CD had been suffering from overwork (letter from Leonard Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 8 February 1878; DAR 219.6: 11).
3
The letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 19 and 21 February [1878], contains a postscript: ‘I beg pardon for my stupidity in having put wrong note in envelope.’ Evidently, CD mixed this letter and the Thiselton-Dyer letter up and put them in the wrong envelopes.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9863F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9863F