To Williams and Norgate   16 January [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan 16th

Dear Sir

Please to send to 57 Queen Anne St Cavendish Sqre. — Sir Emerson Tennants work on Ceylon.—2 and Owen’s Classification & Distribution of Mammalia: Parker: 1859.—3

I have received your account for the Parcels which you so kindly sent for me & I will pay it, when I get the account for above books.—4

Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

1
The recipient and the year are provided by an entry in CD’s Account book (see n. 4, below).
2
Tennent 1859.
3
R. Owen 1859a, published by John William Parker and Son. The work is not in the Darwin Library.
4
CD recorded a payment of £3 11s. 4d. to the London booksellers Williams and Norgate on 29 January 1860 (CD’s Account book (Down House MS)). CD engaged this firm in November 1859 to send presentation copies of Origin abroad (see Correspondence vol. 7, letters to John Murray, 15 October [1859], and to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.2 16th] ‘6’ over ‘5’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2653,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2653