To Richard Kippist1 10 March [1858]2
Down, Bromley, Kent,
March 10
My dear Sir,
I am owing to a mistake which I made in very great want of two Books, which I had once before out of Library. In fact I am come to a dead stand still until I can get them. I do not know what regulations are, but I think the council would permit your being so kind as to send off the two vos. to the enclosed address tomorrow morning. Will you so far oblige me? The Books are the vol. of Boreau’s Flora du Centre de la France3 which includes genus Carex. And Flora Ratisbonensis (Naturhistorische Topog: von Regensburg) Dr. A. E. Fürnrohr, 1839.4 I do hope you can oblige me in this: if sent off soonest tomorrow morning by Charing Cross Coach I shall get them on Friday morning.
NO, I have just thought of better plan; I will send our carrier, tomorrow morning, for the chance of you being able to give the Books to him.5
My dear sir | Yours very sincerely, | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Boreau, Alexandre. 1840. Flore du centre de la France; ou description des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans la région centrale de la France, et de celles qui y sont cultivées en grand, avec l’analyse des genres et des espèces. 2 vols. in 1. Paris: Roret.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Fürnrohr, August Emanuel. 1839. Flora Ratisbonensis, oder Uebersicht der um Regensburg wildwachsenden Gewächse. Vol. 2 of Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, edited by A. E. Fürnrohr. Regensburg: Manz.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2238
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2238,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2238.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7 and 24 (Supplement)