To W. W. Baxter 9 February 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Feb. 9th/81
Dear Sir
Will you be so good as to send me a bottle of Vaseline of white colour if you have any.—1 Also I want a pot or bottle of soft Bears-grease or Pomatum (whichever you think best) to put on my beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.—2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marsh, Madeleine. 2009. Compacts and cosmetics: beauty from Victorian times to the present day. Barnsley, Yorkshire: Remember When.
Summary
Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13047
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
- Physical description
- AL inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13047,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13047.xml