To W. W. Baxter? 8 November [1872–4]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 8th
Dear Sir
Please to send me in a Box a vulcanised Indian-Rubber Enema of medium size.— The one which I had from you & which suits me, is 4 inches in height from the base to the upper part of the wooden rim which receives the bone nozzle.—2
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, Janet. 1998. I could have retched all night. Darwin and his body. In Science incarnate. Historical embodiments of natural knowledge, edited by Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Orders enema.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8613
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8613,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8613.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
