To a librarian [c. June 1858 or later]1
Mr C. Darwin will return Jowett’s St Paul tomorrow morning (Thursday) & would be glad to have ready for the porter.2
Hugh Millars Schools & schoolmasters.3
Cruise of the Betsey4
Decressy.5
Haggarty Diamond6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Jowett, Benjamin. 1855. The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Romans. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Miller, Hugh. 1854. My schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education. Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter.
Miller, Hugh. 1858b. The cruise of the Betsey; or, A summer ramble among the fossiliferous deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a geologist; or, Ten thousand miles over the fossiliferous deposits of Scotland. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.
[Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne.] 1765. The history of the marquis de Cressy. Translated from the French. London: T. Becket, P. A. de Hondt. Edinburgh: J. Balfour.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. 1849. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. London: Bradbury & Evans.
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2199F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Librarian
- Source of text
- Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
- Physical description
- L 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2199F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2199F.xml