From J. S. Billings 7 October 1881
7, Brook Street, | Grosvenor Square. W.
Oct 7th/81.
Dear Mr Darwin.
Will you kindly permit me to recall my name to your memory by the pamphlet on the production of a particular form of septisaemia by certain salivas, a copy of which I send herewith.1
I promised you this in the very pleasant five minutes which I spent with you at Sir James Pagets on the first day of the Medical Congress.2 Since then I have been in Russia, and on my return find that the pamphlet (which I had sent for) has arrived.
I had the pleasure of dining last night with Drs Lauder Brunton and Norman Moore and we talked much of you.3
It is due to their encouragement that I venture to ask whether I could come out to see you next Sunday Afternoon.
Dr W. M. Ord.4 with whom I am staying— the Dean of St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School,— is also very desirous of meeting you and would I think come with me upon very small encouragement.
If this proposed invasion will be convenient to you will you kindly send a line to me to that effect.
With the greatest respect | Very Sincerely Yours | J S Billings.
Chas Darwin
CD note:5
2.30 Charing X 3.19′ Orping 4° at Down.
Return 8°.28′
9.6
leaving 8° 20′
Bromley
4° 12 Victoria
4.37′ Bromley
10° 25′ a.m
[‘Br’ del] How abt 12.—
leaving here about 2° 45.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Sternberg, George Miller. 1881. A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co.
Summary
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13376
- From
- John Shaw Billings
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St, 7
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 15
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13376,” accessed on
