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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. C. Marshall   20 [April 1877]1

2 Bryanston Court

Friday 20th

[Discussing alterations to Darwin’s country house, and asking Marshall to arrange for some ‘good locks and window-fastenings’ which Darwin has discovered are not included in his contract. He proceeds to discuss the question of a cornice in a passageway. A note on the verso in another hand concerns another building problem—‘the knotty point of the bell-pull’.]2

Footnotes

The month and year are established by the address, the day of the week, and the subject (see n. 2, below). In 1877, the twentieth of the month fell on a Friday only in April and July. CD stayed at 2 Bryanston Street, London, the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield, from 20 to 24 April 1877 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
CD had engaged Marshall as architect to build an addition to Down House in September 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. C. Marshall, 19 September 1876).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10939F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Source of text
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10939F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10939F.xml

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