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To ?   5 September 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Sept 5th 1881

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as to send me about 2 or 3 square feet of Linoleum (I think it is so called) like the enclosed bit.—1

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Linoleum is a waterproof floor covering made by coating canvas with oxidised linseed oil; it was invented by Frederick Edward Walton, who set up the Linoleum Manufacturing Company in 1864 in Staines (ODNB).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 so] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13317A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13317A