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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. D. Crick   10 March [1882]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

March 10th

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your interesting note.2 I have been very unwell for several days & doubt whether I can go to London on the 15th, as I had intended, but if unable I will send the shell by Post to B. Museum. for correct name.—3 While looking over some M.S. notes the other day I came across 2 analogous cases, so I will draw up a little article for Nature & send all the cases.— I will forward a copy to you.4

Excuse hurry | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. D. Crick, 9 March 1882.
In the event, CD did not go to London. CD did not send the shell to the British Museum, but to John Gwyn Jeffreys, an expert conchologist (see letter to W. D. Crick, 23 March 1882).
CD’s article, ‘Dispersal of freshwater bivalves’, was published in Nature, 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.

Bibliography

‘Dispersal of freshwater bivalves’: On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves. By Charles Darwin. Nature, 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.

Summary

Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13722
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Sent from
Down
Source of text
The Huntington Library (HM 36226)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13722,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13722.xml

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