To [Agnes Taylor?]1 22 October [1877]2
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 22d
Mr Ch. Darwin has the pleasure to enclose a cheque of 5.5.0 as some aid to Mrs. Beke.3 Mr. Darwin does not wish to subscribe for Dr. Beke’s work on M. Sinai.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Beke, Charles Tilstone. 1878. The late Dr. Charles Beke’s discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by Emily Alston Beke. London: Trübner & Co.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
CD sends £5.5.0 with a formal note "as some aid to Mrs Beke", but does not wish to subscribe for Dr Beke’s work on Mt Sinai.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11198
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Agnes Taylor
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Morton Pepper (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11198,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11198.xml