To Williams & Norgate1 10 February [1866]2
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb. 10th
Dear Sir
Please get for me & send to “care of G. Snow Nag’s Head,”3 Owens Anatomy of Vertebrates.—4
I will take in for present year the Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist,5 & it may be sent by post monthly or bimonthly or with the Poultry Book.—6
Please & try & procure for me & send soon by Post, the 3 following numbers of the “Medical Times & Gazette”, viz
for August 19th. 1865
—Sept. 9th. do
Sept 23rd. do7
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
It is a great misfor. that the Nat. Hist. Revw. has ceased.—8
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Owen, Richard. 1866–8. On the anatomy of vertebrates. 3 vols. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1867. The poultry book: comprising the breeding and management of profitable and ornamental poultry, their qualities and characteristics; to which is added ‘The standard of excellence in exhibition birds’, authorized by the Poultry Club. London and New York: George Routledge & Sons.
Summary
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5002
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Williams & Norgate
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5002,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5002.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14