To W. W. Baxter 18 March [1882]
Summary
Orders two bottles of "the simple Antispasmodic" and "the Glycerin Pepsin mixture". Andrew Clark wishes him to commence his physic at once.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10897 |
To W. W. Baxter 6 January [1878]
Summary
Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11314 |
To W. W. Baxter 9 February 1881
Summary
Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13047 |
To W. W. Baxter 11 March 1882
Summary
Orders morphia pills in case of severe pain, which he hopes may never occur.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13724 |
To W. W. Baxter 11 December [1873–5?]
Summary
Requests hydrated magnesia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1873-5] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772G |
To William Walmisley Baxter 26 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13773 |
To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13774 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [after June 1857] |
| Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889F |
To William Walmisley Baxter 23 September [1857–9?]
Summary
The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1857-9] |
| Classmark: | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2142F |
To William Walmisley Baxter? 22 January 1861
Summary
Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1861 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (MS 29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3049 |
To W. W. Baxter 16 July [1872?]
Summary
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 16 July [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7280 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
To W. W. Baxter 14 November [1871]
Summary
Thanks for loan of measure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8066 |
To W. W. Baxter? 17 January [1872–4]
Summary
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8165 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 11 May [1873] |
| Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
To W. W. Baxter 4 September [1872?]
Summary
Orders some salts for plant experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1872?] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8510 |
To W. W. Baxter 17 September [1872?]
Summary
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8523 |
To W. W. Baxter 2 [December 1872]
Summary
Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Dec 1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8592 |
To W. W. Baxter? 8 November [1872–4]
Summary
Orders enema.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8613 |
To W. W. Baxter [after 4 December 1872]
Summary
Thanks for information about the Atropia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [after 4 Dec 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8659F |
