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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