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From Asher & Co.   28 November 1881

asher & co. | foreign booksellers | and | publishers. | 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, | London, W.C. | (Also at 5, Unter den Linden, Berlin.)

Nov. 28. 1881

Dear Sir,

We beg to inform you that we have received in one of our cases from Germany, an enclosure directed to you, from the Academy of Sciences—Vienna the expenses upon which amount to £ 0: 4: 01

Will you have the goodness to remit us the amount, either in stamps or by P.O.O., and the parcel will at once be forwarded to your address, free of all charges. P.O.O. made payable at King Street, Covent Garden.

Your most obedient servants, | Asher & Co.

Footnotes

The enclosure has not been found. CD paid by postal order; his reply is written on the back of this letter (see letter to Asher & Co., 29 November [1881]). CD was an foreign corresponding member of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Imperial Academy of Science), Vienna (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix III).

Summary

An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13517F
From
Asher & Co.
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London
Source of text
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Physical description
1p Printed form

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13517F,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/view/letters/DCP-LETT-13517F

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 29

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