To Robert Downie1 14 July [1850]2
Down | Farnborough | Kent
July 14th
Sir
I wrote a note to you about a week since, asking whether you supplied Entomological Store Boxes, (of shape of back-gammon Board) lined on both sides with good cork & papered.
I wish for one (or probably more) of large size, but I must know prices & dimensions.— Please to answer this note. My former one was addressed to Mr Burch; but I see on Labels of articles purchased at your place, two names, so I may have addressed my former note wrongly.
Sir | Your obed | Charles Darwin
I have one Box 16 x 12 & 4 inches deep; but I think rather larger would be better. The outside to be plain deal.— No lock & key.
Footnotes
Summary
An enquiry about the availability, size, and cost of cork-lined boxes for entomological collections.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1343A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Downie
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Autos & Autos (dealers) (Catalogue 839)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1343A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1343A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7 (Supplement)
