To ? 9 August [1872–4]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Augt. 9th
Dear Sir
I thank you for your kind & most courteous note.— I will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.—2
Dear sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between 1872 and 1874. A note on the back of the letter reads ‘for Mr Kerr’; Mr Kerr may be the addressee, but he has not been further identified.
The error and the publication in which it occurred have not been identified.
Summary
Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8460F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Courtesy of Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections (Autograph Collection (Bremer–Drew), Box 3, Folder 309)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8460F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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