To Richard Kippist?1 1 February [1860]2
Down Bromley Kent
Wednesday Feb: 1st
Dear Sir
The Carrier3 shall call tomorrow (Thursday) morning & bring some Books & I shd be much obliged if you would give him (if you have) the 1st . &—likewise the 10th . Editions of the Vestiges of Creation4 Also the 2d Edit of Baden Powell’s Unity of Worlds.5
No other Editions will be of any service.—6
Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Chambers, Robert.] 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. London: John Churchill.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Powell, Baden. 1856. Essays on the spirit of inductive philosophy, unity of worlds, and the philosophy of creation. 2d ed. London.
Summary
CD is sending some books by carrier. Requests that he be given the 1st and also the 10th editions of Vestiges of creation [1844, 1853], and also the 2d edition of Baden Powell’s Unity of worlds [1856]. "No other editions will be of any service." [See Origin (1861), "Historical sketch".]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2678
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Gallery of History (dealers) (1997)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p (facsimile)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2678,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2678.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8