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To W. D. Whitney   8 May 1875

Dated Stamp of Delivering Office. MY 8 75

Handed in at the Farnboro Kent Office at 12.30 .m. Received here at 1.[illeg] .m.

From | C. Darwin | Down Farnboro | Kent

To | W. D. Whitney | Dr Rost | Jena Villa Castlebar Rd | Ealing

Hope you will come Sunday tomorrow by two thirty from Charing Cross to Orpington1   will send you to Station in evening as house is full2

Telegram

1
Orpington Station was the closest to Down on the South Eastern Railway.
2
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer and Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield arrived in Down on Saturday 8 May; presumably they stayed for the weekend.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9974,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9974