From A. Y. Spearman 23 February 1838
Chs. Darwin Esqr.
Sir
Having laid before the Lords &c your Letter of the 16 Inst inclosing the Account of Messrs Smith & Elder for the first part of the Work entitled The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, which is now published, amounting to the sum of £68.10.10. I am commanded by their Ldps to acquaint you that this payt. will be made to Messrs. Smith and Elder at any time by Mr. Sargent,1 at this Office, on their Application; and that payment will in like manner be ordered to be made hereafter on the receipt of a Certificate from you of the Sum required to be paid, accompanied by a document of the same nature as that now transmitted.— 23d Feb. 1838 A Y Spearman
Footnotes
Summary
Payment of the Smith, Elder & Co. account has been ordered, amounting to the sum of £68.10.10 for the first part of the Zoology.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-402C
- From
- Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 443)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 402C,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-402C.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
