Letter 473
Darwin, C. R. to Phillips, John
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Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP's lectures.
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My dear Sir
I send the Map, as you desired: it is, however, hardly clear enough to expose.—
Would it be possible for me to attend the lecture on Tuesday.— if you can admit me, for this one day, will you send me a line per
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Believe me | Most truly Yours | Chas. Darwin
Monday
Morning
12 Upper Gower St.
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The addressee of the letter is identified from the location of the letter in the Phillips papers at Oxford. - +
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Dated from the reference in the letter to the lecture delivered by Phillips on Tuesday, 19 March 1839. - +
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In CD's Notebook E: 122 there is the following entry: ‘March 20t h. Phillips in Lecture in Royal Institution says shells become less in number, ([backwards?] species or individuals) the deeper one goes— surely is this true?—most strange.—’