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To W. W. Baxter   11 March 1882

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

March 11th 1882

Dear Sir

Be so kind as to send me 2 Bottles of enclosed prescription, so that I may keep one up & one down stairs— —1

I want also to have 2 or 3 dozen pills of Morphia in a bottle with good stopper, (as I may never use them) in case of access of severe pain.—

Please mark Bottle, how much each pill contains & after how short. an interval I could take a second pill with safety.—2 I will then show the bottle to Dr Andrew Clark when I next see him.3 I want to have the pills ready in case of access of severe pain which I hope may never occur.

AL incomplete

1
The enclosure has not been found. CD mentioned being very unwell for several days in his letter to W. D. Crick, 10 March [1882].
2
The signature has been excised and the words that were removed on the verso of the signature, ‘Please mark’, have been written in by an unknown hand.
3
Clark was CD’s physician.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
2.1 good] interl
3.1 Please mark] not in CD’s hand
3.1 Bottle] above del ‘outside box’
3.1 much each pill] not in CD’s hand
3.1 contains] after del illeg
3.1 after how short.] not in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13724,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13724