To Richard Kippist 23 February [1857]
Down Bromley Kent
Feb. 23d
My dear Sir
I beg leave to enclose to you my Subscription1
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin R Kippist Esq
Footnotes
Kippist was the clerk, librarian, and housekeeper of the Linnean Society. The society had opened a subscription in June 1856 to meet the cost of moving from Somerset House to its new rooms in Burlington House. Kippist noted on the letter, ‘(Cheque for £20 on Union Bk. of London)’. The society held its first general meeting in Burlington House on 25 May 1857. See Gage 1938, pp. 44, 51. CD recorded this payment on 22 February 1857 in his Account book (Down House MS).
Bibliography
Gage, Andrew Thomas. 1938. A history of the Linnean Society of London. London: Linnean Society of London.
Summary
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2058
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2058,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2058.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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