To Smith, Elder, and Company 29 June [1843]
Down. | Bromley | Kent
June 29th
Dear Sir
Would you so far oblige me as to inform me, whether you have the means to send (at the expence of not more than a few shillings) two quarto pamphlets to a Professor at Massachussetts in the United States— I am anxious to send to him two Papers of mine & have no notion how to effect it.1
Excuse me troubling you & believe me Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Neither the papers referred to nor their intended recipient have been identified, although it is possible that CD wished to send copies of his geological papers to Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College. At this time, CD did not know Asa Gray, professor of botany at Harvard.
Summary
Requests information as to means of sending two pamphlets to a professor in the United States.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-677A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JY 1 1843
- Source of text
- Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 677A,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-677A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7 (Supplement)
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