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To J. W. Salter   19 [June 1867]1

6 Queen Anne St | Cavendish Sqr. W.

Wednesday 19th

Dear Mr Salter

No one can be more sincerely glad than I am, on your own account & on that of Science, to hear that your circumstances are amended & your anxieties lessened.2 As you are so kind as to offer so freely the Supp. Eng. Bot. I shall be very much pleased to accept it, & you can send it by Deliv. Co. either here, or to

“C. Darwin

care of G. Snow

Nag’s Head

Borough.”3

I am generally so much tired in the evening, that I can go no where, but should I feel unususually strong I will attend at Geolog. Soc tonight.4 It has been a very great loss to me that I have been compelled to give up attending all Scientific meetings.—

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. W. Salter, 18 June 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
2
For Salter’s financial and mental state, see Secord 1985.
3
See Correspondence vol. 15, letter from J. W. Salter, 18 June 1867. Salter was the proprietor of the Supplement to the English botany of the late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby (W. J. Hooker, Sowerby [et al.] 1831–63). There is a copy of it in the Darwin Library–CUL. George Snow was the Down carrier; his London terminus was the Nag’s Head Inn in Borough.
4
Salter gave two papers at the 19 June meeting of the Geological Society of London: ‘On some tracks of Pteraspis (?) in the Upper Ludlow Sandstone’, and, jointly with Henry Hicks, ‘On a new Lingulella from the Red Lower Cambrian rocks of St. Davids’ (see Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 23 (1867): 333–41). There is no record of CD’s having attended.

Bibliography

Hooker, William Jackson, Sowerby, James de Carle [et al.]. 1831–63. Supplement to the English Botany of the late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby. 5 vols. London: n.p.

Secord, James Andrew. 1985b. John W. Salter: the rise and fall of a Victorian palaeontological career. In From Linnaeus to Darwin: commentaries on the history of biology and geology. Papers from the fifth Easter meeting of the Society for the History of Natural History, 28–31 March, 1983. London: Society for the History of Natural History.

Summary

CD is relieved that JWS’s circumstances have improved. He is pleased to accept Supplement to English Botany. He will try to attend Geological Society meeting.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5571F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John William Salter
Sent from
6 Queen Anne Street, London
Source of text
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 4)
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5571F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5571F.xml

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