To Edward Frankland 2 December [1878]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent. | (☞Railway Station | Orpington S.E.R.)
Dec 2d
My dear Professor Frankland
Very many thanks for the Blue Book.2 I had no idea what a large present you intended to make me, & Good Heavens the amount of work which it includes!
When you kindly send the pure water, please address it simply “C. Darwin Orpington Stn. S.E.Ry.”3 We have sent for Wenham ice & are going on with the experiments. I much enjoyed my talk with you4
Yours very sincerely Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hamlin, Christopher. 1990. A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Wynter, Andrew. 1867. Our social bees; or, pictures of town & country life, and other papers. 9th edition. London: Robert Hardwicke.
Summary
Thanks for the Blue Book [Report to the Local Government Board on the water supplied to London].
Gives instructions for sending the pure water.
Has sent for the Wenham ice.
Enjoyed his talk with EF.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11768A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Frankland
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2230)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11768A,” accessed on 29 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11768A.xml