To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]1
☞ Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 25th
My dear Tyndall
My son Frank has been in Cambridge & only returned this evening so that I cd. not answer your note by return of Post.2 He will be very glad to do his best in what you require.— Give us full instructions.— Direct the tubes as above.3 If it is necessary that they shd reach us quickly, please write outside “to be forwarded by foot-messenger”.
Otherwise parcels always wait till carriage goes to station, which is never long.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10222
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Tyndall
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10222,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10222.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
