To John Richardson 30 December [1851]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Decr. 30th.
My dear Sir John.
Tomorrow I will send your Box (carriage paid) by the Carrier to London to be booked by Railway to you on Thursday, & I suppose you will receive it, (I hope safely) on Friday or Saturday. I enclose according to your desire the names of the cirripedes. They are all British species; but I have been particularly glad to see them on account of their high range, & am very truly obliged to you for the loan of them.—2
I have lately been reading with much interest the account of your last expedition.3
Pray believe me | your’s truly obliged | C. Darwin
To | Sir J. Richardson C. B.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Richardson, John. 1851. Arctic searching expedition: a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Summary
Will send JR’s box of cirripedes on Thursday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1466H
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Richardson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (James E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1466H,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1466H.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
