From Mary Somerville 30 October 1866
La Spezia Piemonte
30th Octr 1866
Dear Mr Darwin
I beg of you to accept my very sincere thanks for your kindness in granting me permission to make use of the illustrations in your admirable work on the Orchids,1 which I have taken the liberty to refer to very extensively in a sketch on the present state of microscopic science which I have just finished2
Believe me | very gratefully yours | Mary Somerville
Footnotes
Bibliography
Somerville, Mary. 1869. On molecular and microscopic science. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to use illustrations from Orchids in her work [On molecular and microscopic science (1869)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5259
- From
- Mary Fairfax/Mary Greig/Mary Somerville
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- La Spezia Piemonte
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 217
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5259,” accessed on 31 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5259.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14