To Robert Fitch 6 January [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
Jan 6th
Dear Sir
If you will have now the kindness to lend me your Pollicipes,1 I shd be very much obliged.— I have given up in despair the lot from Copenhagen;2 but I now have 40 or 50 specimens here. I hope that you will allow me to keep your specimen a week for I really shall hardly be able to compare all my specimens under this time.—
If you have any separate valves3 & wd be pleased to entrust them to me, I shd be grateful for the assistance.
I will immediately on receipt of the specimen acknowledge its arrival. & return stamps for its registry &c.—
I beg to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Trenn, Thaddeus J. 1974. Charles Darwin, fossil cirripedes, and Robert Fitch: presenting sixteen hitherto unpublished Darwin letters of 1849 to 1851. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118: 471–91.
Summary
Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1288
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Fitch
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Norwich Castle
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1288,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1288.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4