To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]1
Down.
Nov 10th
Dear Sir
I am sorry to cause you trouble, but I shd. greatly prefer an enema with shorter nozzle, viz 2 inches or 2 inches & , measured from the top of the ivory collar to the extremity of the nozzle.— I find also I shd. like the whole enema a little larger, viz about of an inch higher, but if you have none such, the size of the one returned would do.—2
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, Janet. 1998. I could have retched all night. Darwin and his body. In Science incarnate. Historical embodiments of natural knowledge, edited by Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13774
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13774,” accessed on 12 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13774.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20