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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. W. Baxter   18 March [1882]1

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March 18th

Dear Sir

Please to give Bearer who is waiting 2 bottles of “The Simple Antispasmodic.”.—

Also the Glycerin Pepsin mixture if you keep this ready.—2 As I am to take it thrice daily please make up a large Bottle, enough to last for at least a week.— With respect to the aperient pills, you can send them at your leisure.— I am sorry to trouble you on a Sunday, but Dr Clark wishes me to commence his physic at once.—3 Dear Sir | Yours faithfully.

Please return prescriptions, or if you make copy let me know, as I cd then send for more without the prescriptions.—

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Andrew Clark, 17 March 1882.
CD presumably wrote this letter on 18 March, which was a Saturday in 1882, but had it delivered by a messenger the next day. Andrew Clark was CD’s physician. See letter from Andrew Clark, 17 March 1882.

Summary

Orders two bottles of "the simple Antispasmodic" and "the Glycerin Pepsin mixture". Andrew Clark wishes him to commence his physic at once.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10897
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Walmisley Baxter
Sent from
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Source of text
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Physical description
AL 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10897,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10897.xml

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