To a bookseller 9 April [1860]
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 9th
Dear Sir
Please procure & send me by Post, Mr Pat. Matthew’s work on “Naval Timber & Arboriculture” 1831. Adam Black Edinburgh & Longman London.—1
Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dempster, W. J. 1996. Natural selection and Patrick Matthew. Evolutionary concepts in the nineteenth century. Durham: Pentland Press.
Matthew, Patrick. 1831. On naval timber and arboriculture; with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. Edinburgh: Adam Black.
Summary
Orders a copy of Matthew 1831 from a bookseller.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2753F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Bookseller.
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller MS alb-54:068)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2753F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2753F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)