To [Henry Huntsman?] 5 June [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 5th
Dear Sir
Will you be so good as to send me as soon as you can by Post. (as I leave home on Friday morning)2 a pair of webbing bracers, with cat-gut & pulleys in front.—3 Please remember that I am 6 ft high & require rather long bracers.
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Summary
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10984A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Huntsman
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10984A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10984A.xml
