To W. B. Carpenter [October–December 1846]
Down Farnborough Kent
Thursday
My dear Sir
When at Southampton you said you would give me the address of the artist whom you employ to draw from under the microscope, & whom you pay at 5s per hour.1 An early answer would very much oblige me, if you would kindly take the trouble.— The objects which I want chiefly drawn are minute corallines, & minute articulata & mollusca & their various organs;2 please say whether you think your artist would do such things well; it is a very different style, hard & precise, from those wonderfully beautiful sections which you exhibited at Southampton.— I hope you will excuse this trouble.— Shd. you have any communication with your artist, wd you mention my name as a probable applicant for his assistance
Pray believe me, my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Zoology: The zoology of the voyage of HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. 5 pts. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1838–43.
Summary
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1001
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Benjamin Carpenter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1001,” accessed on 13 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1001.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
