To James de Carle Sowerby 12 February [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
Feb. 12th.
My dear SIr
I find coming to London so disagrees with my health, that I shall not attend anniversary of Geolog. Soc.—1 Will you, therefore, be so good as to send me a line when you have finished all the drawings, & I will soon or immediately come up & bring several others to be drawn.—
If you can with any honesty do purloin a proof-sheet of Mr Dixon’s Plate with Cirripedes.2 for me.—
Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
I beg your pardon for troubling you, but I shd. be glad to have, when you write, a memorandum of what I shall owe you for present drawings,3 as a guide how far I may indulge myself in all the future ones.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dixon, Frederick. 1850. The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex. London.
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Summary
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1303
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James de Carle Sowerby
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1303,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1303.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
