From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 4
Summary:
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
Is sending G. G. Stokes's instructions about polarization. Observation parties are off to Oran, Gibraltar and Cadiz.
Sending his apologies for some errors he made in his calculations in his letter of 30 Nov.