From W. E. Darwin 21 August [1863]1
Southampton.
Au 21
My Dear Father,—
I have signed the six orders for Dividends & forwarded them,2 also sent Aunt Catherines letter to Uncle Ras—3
Thanks for Mama’s nice long letter4 it has given me more news than I have had for a long time.
I am reading hard away at Mülder Organic Chemistry & find it very interesting tho’ rather long.5
On examining the Lythrums they turned out to be nothing, tho’ it was not a fair trial.6 Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins gave a good lecture last week at the Hartley upon Unity of Vertebrate structure but no “origin” turned up7
Dr. Lankaster is going to lecture on Monday which I shall go and hear8
Your affect son | W E Darwin
I am glad to hear you are going to have Dr B—? down9
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Footnotes
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Summary
Has signed and forwarded some orders.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4271
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 95
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4271,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4271.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11