To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan 16th
Dear Sir
Please to send to 57 Queen Anne St Cavendish Sqre. — Sir Emerson Tennants work on Ceylon.—2 and Owen’s Classification & Distribution of Mammalia: Parker: 1859.—3
I have received your account for the Parcels which you so kindly sent for me & I will pay it, when I get the account for above books.—4
Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Tennent, James Emerson. 1859. Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical, with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. 3d edition. 2 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2653
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Williams & Norgate
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2653,” accessed on 14 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2653.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
