To Alfred Merle Norman 29 July [1869]1
Down Beckenham | Kent
July 29
Dear Sir
I hope that you will excuse the liberty which I take in begging a favour of you. Prof. Haeckel is carefully studying calcareous sponges & is very anxious for British specimens.2
Mr. Hancock informs me that you are the most likely person to possess, & to feel inclined to give under these circumstances, some specimens.3
If this is in your power I shd be grateful if you wd send me any, however few, specimens addressed to
“C. Darwin Esqre
care of Down Postman
Bromley Kent.”
With apologies for troubling you I remain dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6845
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Merle Norman
- Sent from
- Caerdeon Down letterhead
- Source of text
- University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6845,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6845.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
