To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb 29th
Mr C. Darwin is much obliged to M. Baillière & enclose stamps 1/1d & wd be obliged for the parcel to be sent to
“6. Queen Anne St”
“Cavendish Sqre—”2
Footnotes
The year is established by the form of address on the printed stationery, used between 1861 and 1869, by the leap years in this period, and by CD’s visit to his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London from 3 March 1868 (Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix II).
CD used the French publisher and bookseller J. B. Baillière et fils to send and receive books between London and New York (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 16, letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 January [1868]). The contents of the parcel have not been identified.
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4415F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- J. B. Baillière et ses fils
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012)
- Physical description
- AL 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4415F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4415F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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