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DCP-LETT-558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[27 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3668

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.11
Summary:

Assures JH that engravers typically take for themselves a few copies of any print they have made. If a large number of these appear for sale, then it is fraud. Suggests JH not act because the engraver is 'insane' and the exposure would hurt his family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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