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From W. E. Darwin   [before 29 January 1876?]1

New University Club, | St. James’s Street, S.W.

Tuesday

My dear Father,

Your cigarettes are gone to you price 6s/ a box—I have paid. I am afraid they are too small. I send next size called “Zetland” if you will return them to

Wood Son

late Theodoridi C.

Pall Mall

They will send you them & charge me the 2s/ a box difference2

Your affect son | W.E D

1
The date is conjectured from the date of CD’s payment to William for cigarettes (see n. 2, below).
2
CD paid William £1 10s. for cigarettes on 29 January 1876; he made payments to Wood for cigarettes of £1 4s. on 12 July and 27 November 1876, and 16s. on 5 June 1877 (CD’s Account books–cash account (Down House MS)). John Wood & Sons had taken over the tobacconist business of Theodoridi & Co. at 23 Pall Mall (Post Office London directory 1876, British Mail and General Produce Prices Current, 31 March 1876, p. 201).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10366F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10366F