To William Martindale 4 August 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.) [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
Aug 4th. 1881
Dear Sir
I thank you very sincerely for sending me the colours so promptly & especially for taking the trouble to give me so much information in your notes— I will try the substances sent before asking you to try & procure for me the Violet de Quinoline.1
Your parcel arrived by post, at the moment when I was starting to leave home for two days,2 so that I had not time to look at the substances.— Nor did I notice whether there was any enclosed account. If not enclosed, you can either send it at once, or allow it to run on, as my son Francis3 or myself will probably soon want some other chemical reagents.—
I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of parcel of colours and chemical reagents.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13273
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Martindale
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 19)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13273,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13273.xml