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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
18 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders two bottles of "the simple Antispasmodic" and "the Glycerin Pepsin mixture". Andrew Clark wishes him to commence his physic at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders morphia pills in case of severe pain, which he hopes may never occur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Dec [1873-5]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2)
Summary:

Requests hydrated magnesia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
26 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Summary:

Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after June 1857]
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:

Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
23 Sept [1857-9]
Source of text:
Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009)
Summary:

The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
22 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (MS 29)
Summary:

Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
16 July [1872?]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Summary:

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
14 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for loan of measure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 May [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1)
Summary:

Requests litmus paper and gum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
4 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Orders some salts for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
2 [Dec 1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410)
Summary:

Orders enema.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 4 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 70
Summary:

Thanks for information about the Atropia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project