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Darwin Correspondence Project

To A. Y. Spearman   27 March 1841

12 Upper Gower St

March 27th. 1841

Sir

I have the honour to transmit, as on former occasions, for the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury the account of Mr. Smith & Elder for the Fifth number of the Third Part of the “Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle”, which is now published.—1 I beg leave to state that as before I have examined the account and superintended the expenditure of each part.

I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obedient servant | Charles Darwin To | The Secretary of the Treasury

Footnotes

Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated March 1841, detailing the various costs of Birds, No. 5. The total expense was £83 18s. 6d.

Summary

The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published fifth number of the third part of the Zoology is presented.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-595A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Sent from
London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4585 paper 10688)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 595A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-595A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2

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