To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [7 August 1851]
7. Park Stt.— | Grosvenor Sqe.—
Thursday
My dear Sir
We return home on Saturday next;1 it would therefore be a very great convenience to me, if in your power, to permit my servant to take my M.S. to Adlard on Saturday morning, between 9 & 10 oclock.— My reason for wishing my own servant to take the M.S. is that I have not a copy of a page, & I would on no account reundergo the labour I have spent on it, & therefore am very unwilling to trust it to the tender mercies of a public conveyance. If I do not hear from you, I shall understand that my servant may call for it.—
I hope you have much enjoyed the brilliant festivities at Paris.2
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
P.S | I may mention as a proof to you, that I send my M.S. fit for the Printers, that Mr Bowerbank retained that for the Pal: Socy: for less than an hour, & the corrections were not heavy.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Owen, Richard Startin. 1894. The life of Richard Owen … With the scientific portions revised by C. Davies Sherborn; also an essay on Owen’s position in anatomical science by the Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Summary
CD returns home Saturday and would like his servant to take his MS [of Living Cirripedia] to Adlard that morning; he does not have a copy and would on no account re-undergo the labour he has spent on it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1448
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
- Sent from
- London, Park St, 7
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1448,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1448.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5