To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]1
Down. Bromley Kent
Wednesday
Dear Sir
I am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind note & very obliging offer of examining my specimens2 I will send them tomorrow morning by our carrier to London & thence per coach to Ripley. The one without any apparent shells, is that which I want examining.— On looking round it, you will see the little, indistinct, embedded fragments. The specimens can be returned any time per coach, directed to me at “7 Park St. Grosvenor Sqre”3
I am very much obliged by your kind offer of sending me some slices of shells, but I have not an achromatic microscope.
With very many thanks, believe me | dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin To | Dr. W. Carpenter
Footnotes
Bibliography
South America: Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846.
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-753
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Benjamin Carpenter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 753,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-753.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
