To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]1
Please half fill Bottle with C. of Ammonia2
C. Darwin
Down | 2d.—
Footnotes
The date range is established and the addressee conjectured from CD’s residence in Down from September 1842 onwards (Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II). William Baxter and William Walmisley Baxter were chemists in Bromley with whom CD regularly did business.
Carbonate of ammonia (ammonium carbonate) was used by CD for his health (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864]), and in his botanical work (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Edward Frankland, 12 July 1873).
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8132
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of (QH 9.9 I59m))
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8132,” accessed on 22 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8132.xml
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