To Richard Kippist 12 May [1868?]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 12
My dear Sir
I will return on Thursday morning the 4 vols. of the Ibis; & will you be so good as to have ready for Carrier “Jerdon’s Birds of India”, & if this does not consist of four vols. please add Bells British Reptiles or if this not in Library vols. 5 & 6 of the Ibis—2
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Might you not send me 5 or 6 vols?3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bell, Thomas. 1849. A history of British reptiles. 2d edition. London: J. van Voorst.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Jerdon, Thomas Claverhill. 1862–4. The birds of India; being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India, with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India. 2 vols. in 3. Calcutta: the author.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Summary
Returns volumes of the Ibis.
Requests T. C. Jerdon’s Birds of India
and Thomas Bell’s British reptiles
as well as vols. 5 & 6 of Ibis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6169A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 18)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6169A,” accessed on 8 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6169A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
