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Darwin Correspondence Project

To A. Y. Spearman   13 July 1839

12 Upper Gower Stt.

July 13th. 1839

Sir

I have the honour to transmit, as on former occasions, for the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury the account of Mrs. Smith & Elder for the third number of the third Part of the “Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle”, which is now published.1 I beg leave to state, that as before I have examined the account & superintended the expenditure of each part

I have the honour to | remain Sir | Your obedient servant | Charles Darwin To | A. Y. Spearman Esqr

&c &c &c

Treasury Chambers

Footnotes

Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated 1 July 1839, detailing the various costs of Birds, No. 3. The total expense was £47 0s. 4d.

Summary

Transmits, as on former occasions, the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published third number of the third part of the Zoology.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-525A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Sent from
London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 525A,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-525A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2

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