To ? 23 January [1879?]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan. 23d
Dear Sir
I procured (I believe from you) many years ago a small sheet of “Superior Gold-Beaters Skin: Whitings Patent”. it is used like Sticking plaister, but I want a sheet for Experimental purposes.—2 If any other similar sheets are sold which are transparent & thinner & more flexible, they wd be still more useful to me.—
When you send me the sheet of Gold-beaters skin, will you kindly look & see if any sheet is more flexible & thinner than the others, for it has to be folded round most delicate stems of plants.
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11841
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11841,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11841.xml
