<span>Transcription: "Dear Sir Roderick Murchison I am very much obliged to you for having thought of me in this out of the way place, & for your kind invitation for the 20th at the Trafalgar Hotel: I should so much enjoy coming, that I will accept it, though I am bound to say that my health is so </span><span>uncertain, that I may fail, but certainly I will come if I possibly can. With many thanks (& for your Card for the 9th & 23d) Pray believe me, Yours sincerely & obliged, Charles Darwin" Letter sent from Down, Farnborough, Kent, EnglandThe Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts</span>