To P. L. Sclater 24 December [1866]1
Down Bromley | Kent.
Dec 24
Dear Sclater
I have thought you might like to see the enclosed proposal, & if you thought fit you cd communicate directly with the man.2 Do not trouble yourself to acknowledge this.
yours very sincerely. | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from B. D. Walsh, [28 November 1866] (see n. 2, below).
CD enclosed a page of a letter from Benjamin Dann Walsh in which Walsh asked whether CD knew of any ornithologist who might want to trade bird skins with the American collector, Jacob W. Velie (see letter from B. D. Walsh, [28 November 1866] and letter to B. D. Walsh, 24 December [1866]).
Summary
Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5318
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Philip Lutley Sclater
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324)
- Physical description
- LS 1p encl
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5318,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5318.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
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