To A. Y. Spearman 16 January 1840
12 Upper Gower St
Jan 16th. 1840
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 Mrss. Smith and Elder for the first number of the Fourth 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 and superintended the expenditure of each part.—
I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obedient servant | Charles Darwin A. Y. Spearman Esqr
&c &c &c
Treasury Chambers.
Footnotes
Summary
Presents the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of the fourth part (now published) of the Zoology.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-550A
- 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 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 550A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-550A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
