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To Williams & Norgate   20 February 18811

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[…] In your account with books received ‘Fauna Neapol. II’ is marked ‘due’ with no price attached, & I do not in the least know what is meant.2 So what is the amount […]

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. I enclose the account.

1
The recipient has been identified as Williams & Norgate, the booksellers who distributed the monograph series Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte in London (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881). The date is taken from the dealer’s catalogue.
2
CD may have decided to subscribe to Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte after seeing a notice in Nature, 3 February 1881, pp. 315–16, stating that the work did not yet have any English subscribers. He would have received Williams & Norgate’s account before the arrival of the letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881, telling him that he would receive the publication gratis.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13058F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13058F