To ? 5 September 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Sept 5th 1881
Dear Sir
Will you be so good as to send me about 2 or 3 square feet of Linoleum (I think it is so called) like the enclosed bit.—1
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Linoleum is a waterproof floor covering made by coating canvas with oxidised linseed oil; it was invented by Frederick Edward Walton, who set up the Linoleum Manufacturing Company in 1864 in Staines (ODNB).
Summary
Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13317A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13317A,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13317A.xml
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