To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]1
Please to send tomorrow morning by Post-man 1 quart of distilled Water in clean Bottle for Photography
C Darwin
Down | Saturday
Footnotes
From 1857, W. W. Baxter of Bromley was CD’s regular chemist. The date is established from references to buying photography supplies for William Erasmus Darwin in CD’s Classed accounts (Down House MS). CD spent £9 5s. on ‘Photography’ on 23 July 1857, and £2 15s. on ‘Photography for William’ on 28 December 1857. (These particular payments were unlikely to have been to Baxter, however; CD paid Baxter’s bill annually, in January (CD’s Account books–cash account).)
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13889F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13889F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13889F.xml
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