From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]1
I enclose 2 pods 2 gr each my little all which I hope will tide you over till you get some from Blunts.3
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Footnotes
The date is conjectured from the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864?].
Erasmus Alvey Darwin refers to the medicine podophyllin, which CD had started taking on 24 March 1864 (see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864?] and n. 4).
CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS) for 1864 included payments to Blunts, or Blunt and Salter, a Shrewsbury dispensing chemist. Blunts was ‘believed at Down to be the best chemist in the world’ (Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 118 n. 2; see also Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Catherine Darwin, [16 September 1842]).
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915.
Summary
Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4364
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B18
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4364,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4364.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
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