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To Daniel Sharpe   [4 November 1846]1

Down, Farnborough, Kent,

Wednesday

My dear Sir,

As I have not heard from you I suppose you do not want Von Buch’s Travels, so I send Hopkins’ solus—2 please keep it as long as you want & return it directed to me at the Athenaeum Club.— If the Drawer’s happen to be ready the carrier shall take them.3

Ever yours, C. Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Daniel Sharpe, [1 November 1846] (Correspondence vol. 3). The first Wednesday after 1 November 1846 was 4 November.
2
CD had offered to lend Sharpe his copy of Christian Leopold von Buch’s Travels through Norway and Lapland (Buch 1813; see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Daniel Sharpe, [1 November 1846]); CD’s annotated copy of Buch 1813 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 90). Sharpe presented a paper on slaty cleavage to the Geological Society of London on 2 December 1846; in it he referred to three publications by William Hopkins (D. Sharpe 1846, p. 100); the paper mentioned by CD was probably Hopkins’s researches in physical geology (Hopkins 1835).
3
CD is probably referring to drawers containing the Falkland Island shells that he collected during the Beagle voyage; these had been described by Sharpe and John Morris in a paper presented to the Geological Society on 25 March 1846 (Morris and Sharpe 1846).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1017F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1017F