From W. E. Darwin 3 March [1868]1
Southampton
March 3.
My dear Father,
If you go to the Jermyn St Museum, I should be much obliged if you would ask the porter for the box containing the skull & bones belonging to Mr Cumberbatch, & get William to make the box up safe & send it to me by rail as Mr C. has asked me for it; if you do not go could you [send] William to get it.2 I unfortunately utterly forgot it when passing thro’.
I hope you are well enough to find London pleasant.
Your affect son | W E Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Reeks, Margaret. 1920. Register of the associates and old students of the Royal School of Mines and history of the Royal School of Mines. 2 vols. London: Royal School of Mines (Old Students’) Association.
Summary
Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5970F
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5970F,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5970F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
