To W. C. Marshall 20 [April 1877]1
2 Bryanston Court
Friday 20th
[Discussing alterations to Darwin’s country house, and asking Marshall to arrange for some ‘good locks and window-fastenings’ which Darwin has discovered are not included in his contract. He proceeds to discuss the question of a cornice in a passageway. A note on the verso in another hand concerns another building problem—‘the knotty point of the bell-pull’.]2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10939F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
- Source of text
- John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10939F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10939F.xml