To Charles Babbage [14 March 1837 – 31 December 1838]1
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kind invitation for tomorrow evening, and whether for beauty or for shells, I should have had great pleasure in accepting if I had not happened to be engaged.—
Yours truly obliged | Chas. Darwin 36 Grt. Marlboro—
Footnotes
The dates are those of CD’s residence at 36 Great Marlborough Street.
Summary
Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-349
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Babbage
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 349,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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