To Edward Frankland 29 May [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
May 29th
My dear Dr. Frankland
The two bottles of pure water arrived safely yesterday & I thank you most heartily, for it is a present of untold value to me.2
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the fact that CD used large amounts of distilled water for his experiments on bloom on leaves (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Edward Frankland, 4 January [1879]).
Frankland had previously supplied CD with water that he had prepared himself, commenting that it was ‘difficult if not impossible to buy pure distilled water’ (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Edward Frankland, 27 September 1873).
Summary
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10001A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Frankland
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10001A,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10001A.xml
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