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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Lawson Tait   19 July 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

July 19th 1880

My dear Sir

I have much pleasure in enclosing 25£ for your Scientific Fund in Birmingham—1

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

On 19 July 1880, CD recorded a payment of £25 to ‘Birm Sc Fund’ under ‘Gifts [and] Annual Subscriptions’ in his Classed account books (Down House MS). For more on the fund, see the letter to Lawson Tait, 16 July [1880] and n. 3.

Summary

Sends £25 for the Birmingham Philosophical Society scientific fund.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12662
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12662,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12662.xml

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