To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8132 |
Baxter, William (1794–1857)
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Baxter 1794–1857 Chemist and druggist. ‘Dresser’ to the surgeon James Scott. A founding member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and a founder of the Bromley Literary Institute. Opened a chemist’s shop in Bromley in 1818, and later branches in Dartford and Greenwich. Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1606/46/27) England & Wales, christening index, 1530–1980 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 …
To William Baxter 2 October [1847?]
Summary
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13775 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Walmisly Baxter seems to have taken over the business in the 1850s. The year is inferred from an entry in CD’s Account book that may be the transaction discussed in the letter (see n. 3, below). There is an entry under ‘Science’ in CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS) dated 7 December 1847 that reads: ‘Baxter bottles etc —13 6’. Only one other similar entry has been found, dated 12 …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Baxter, William | (2) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Baxter, William | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
