To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 8 December [1842–81]¹

a large pot of soft spermaceti ointment²

C. Darwin

Down. Dec^r 8^th—

The date range and the addressee are conjectured from CD’s residence in Down from September 1842 onwards (Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II), and by the existence of other letters mentioning spermaceti to William Baxter or his son William Walmisley Baxter, the chemists in Bromley that CD used whenever he was resident in Down (see n. 2, below, and Correspondence vol. 26, letter to W. W. Baxter, 6 January [1878]).

For the composition and use of spermaceti ointment, see this volume, Supplement, letter to [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?], [1842–82?] and n. 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11271F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11271F

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Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-11271F
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date: 8 Dec 1842
Date: 8 Dec 1843
Date: 8 Dec 1844
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Date: 8 Dec 1881
Sent from: Down
Source of text: University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Physical description: ALS

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