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To Williams & Norgate   28 April [1880]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

I am very sorry to have troubled you but I had quite forgotten that I possessed Vol. I.1

Kindly send me whenever convenient the 2d Vol.—

C. D.

Ap. 28th—

Footnotes

1
A note in the same hand as the endorsement reads ‘Nathusius Vortrage II’, a reference to Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniß (Lectures on cattle breeding and breed information; Nathusius 1872–80) by Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius. CD’s annotated copy of Nathusius 1872–80 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 636). CD had bought a copy of the first volume in late 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Hermann Settegast, 20 October 1871).

Bibliography

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Nathusius, Hermann von. 1872–80. Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniß. 2 vols. and supplement. Berlin: Verlag von Wiegandt & Hempel.

Summary

Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12593F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Williams & Norgate
Sent from
Down
Source of text
eBay (22 August 2019)
Physical description
ApcS

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12593F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12593F.xml

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