To John Wheldon 20 May [1869]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
May 20th
Dear Sir
Please send the 2 Books as below, with account, addressed to “C. Darwin Eq
care of Down Postman | Bromley | Kent”2
Per Rail
Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
1602 ANTHROPOLOGIA, or Dissertations on the Form and Colour of Man, with Incidental Remarks by J. Jarrold, M.D., 4to, boards, 10s 6d, rare 1808
This work has much the appearance of the Darwinian theory.3
1658 LAWRENCE’s Lectures on Man, plates,4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Desmond, Adrian. 1989. The politics of evolution: morphology, medicine, and reform in radical London. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Jarrold, Thomas. 1808. Anthropologia: or, dissertations on the form and colour of man; with incidental remarks. London: Cadell and Davies.
Lawrence, William. 1819. Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. London: J. Callow.
Lawrence, William. 1822. Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. London: Benbow.
Summary
Orders two second-hand books from a dealer’s catalogue.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6753F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Wheldon
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (tipped into Rare Book QH9 D25 867M)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6753F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6753F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)