To Swale and Wilson1 [on or before 24 October 1849]2
Down
Dear Sir
Will you please to send to address on other page by next Wednesday night, diag —— Footprints of a Creator (by H. Miller)3
—— Humboldts letters of a Statesman translated recently4
—— Six cards of “Patent Parryian National Pen Nor 3.: Fine Points”5 ramme
NB please attend that this kind be sent.
And a packet of 100 of Newspaper covers;6 I think patented by Delafield—viz a strip of paper with a tape let in.—
Yours faithfully | C. Darwin C. Darwin Ese care of G. Snow Nag’s Head Borough.
N.B. Carrier goes on Thursday morning
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm von. 1849. Thoughts and opinions of a statesman. A series of extracts from the letters of K. W. von Humboldt to Charlotte Diede. Edited by Arthur Helps. London.
Miller, Hugh. 1849. Footprints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis of Stromness. London: Johnstone and Hunter.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Summary
Orders books [Hugh Miller, Foot-prints of the Creator (1849)
and Carl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Thoughts and opinions of a statesman, Sir Arthur Helps, ed. (1849)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1263
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Swale and Wilson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- W. H. Thorpe (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1263,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1263.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4