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To W. W. Baxter   18 March [1882]1

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March 18th

Dear Sir

Please to give Bearer who is waiting 2 bottles of “The Simple Antispasmodic.”.—

Also the Glycerin Pepsin mixture if you keep this ready.—2 As I am to take it thrice daily please make up a large Bottle, enough to last for at least a week.— With respect to the aperient pills, you can send them at your leisure.— I am sorry to trouble you on a Sunday, but Dr Clark wishes me to commence his physic at once.—3 Dear Sir | Yours faithfully.

Please return prescriptions, or if you make copy let me know, as I cd then send for more without the prescriptions.—

AL

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Andrew Clark, 17 March 1882.
3
CD presumably wrote this letter on 18 March, which was a Saturday in 1882, but had it delivered by a messenger the next day. Andrew Clark was CD’s physician. See letter from Andrew Clark, 17 March 1882.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.3 aperient] interl
3.1 or] above del ‘&’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10897,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10897