To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 16 March [1843–82]¹

Please fill Bottle with Spirits of Wine²

C. Darwin

Down | March 16^th.

The year range is established from the fact that the Darwins moved to Down in September 1842 (Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II). William Baxter and his son William Walmisley Baxter of Bromley, Kent, were CD’s regular chemists.

Spirits of wine were used as a preservative for animal and plant specimens.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13772F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13772F

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Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13772F
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date: 16 Mar 1843
Date: 16 Mar 1844
Date: 16 Mar 1845
Date: 16 Mar 1846
Date: 16 Mar 1847
Date: 16 Mar 1848
Date: 16 Mar 1849
Date: 16 Mar 1850
Date: 16 Mar 1851
Date: 16 Mar 1852
Date: 16 Mar 1853
Date: 16 Mar 1854
Date: 16 Mar 1855
Date: 16 Mar 1856
Date: 16 Mar 1857
Date: 16 Mar 1858
Date: 16 Mar 1859
Date: 16 Mar 1860
Date: 16 Mar 1861
Date: 16 Mar 1862
Date: 16 Mar 1863
Date: 16 Mar 1864
Date: 16 Mar 1865
Date: 16 Mar 1866
Date: 16 Mar 1867
Date: 16 Mar 1868
Date: 16 Mar 1869
Date: 16 Mar 1870
Date: 16 Mar 1871
Date: 16 Mar 1872
Date: 16 Mar 1873
Date: 16 Mar 1874
Date: 16 Mar 1875
Date: 16 Mar 1876
Date: 16 Mar 1877
Date: 16 Mar 1878
Date: 16 Mar 1879
Date: 16 Mar 1880
Date: 16 Mar 1881
Date: 16 Mar 1882
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/1)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30-Supplement.

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