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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Francis Galton   1 August [1872]

Aug. 1.—

I have just heard that our carrier, Mr Snow (put his name on address. ie “to care of Mr. Snow”) has returned to his former period, & leaves the Nag’s Head every Thursday morning.—1

C. Darwin

Footnotes

George Snow operated a weekly carrier service between Down and the Nag’s Head in London on Thursdays (Post Office directory of the six home counties 1870). Galton evidently wanted to send CD one of the rabbits on which he had been experimenting (see letters to Francis Galton, 23 January [1872] and n. 2, and 9 August [1872]).

Bibliography

Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.

Summary

George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8442
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Galton
Sent from
Down
Postmark
AU 2 72
Source of text
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11)
Physical description
ApcS

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8442,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8442.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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