From Asher & Co.   28 November 1881

asher & co. | foreign booksellers | and | publishers. | 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, | London, W.C. | (Also at 5, Unter den Linden, Berlin.)

Nov. 28. 1881

Dear Sir,

We beg to inform you that we have received in one of our cases from Germany, an enclosure directed to you, from the Academy of Sciences—Vienna the expenses upon which amount to £ 0: 4: 01

Will you have the goodness to remit us the amount, either in stamps or by P.O.O., and the parcel will at once be forwarded to your address, free of all charges. P.O.O. made payable at King Street, Covent Garden.

Your most obedient servants, | Asher & Co.

The enclosure has not been found. CD paid by postal order; his reply is written on the back of this letter (see letter to Asher & Co., 29 November [1881]). CD was an foreign corresponding member of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Imperial Academy of Science), Vienna (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix III).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13517F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13517F