Politely Declined #1: Charles Darwin

charlesdarwin1

36 Great Marlborough Street [1837]

My dear Mr. Babbage,

I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.

…

Charles Darwin

Published by Samuel Wood

Stepping out of the rubble like so much discarded underwear.

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