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To Williams & Norgate   [7 February 1863 or earlier]1

Down Bromley Kent

Saturday

Dear Sir

Would it be possible to get for me the numbers for Jany. 2d & Jany. 9th of the Botanische Zeitung for present year 1863. These two numbers contain two articles of considerable importance for me, & yet it would not be worth my while to buy whole volume.—2

If you can get them, please oblige me & send them by Post.—

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. Would you be so kind as to inform me, whether it is likely that you can obtain the two numbers. I enclose envelope for answer3

Endorsement: ‘13/ii 63’

1
The date is established by the endorsement. In 1863, 13 February was a Friday; the preceding Saturday was 7 February. The date of the endorsement may be the date that Williams & Norgate sent the papers to CD rather than the date they received CD’s request. Ludolph Christian Treviranus wrote to CD that he had sent copies of his paper to Williams & Norgate to be sent on to CD in his letter of 12 February 1863 (Correspondence vol. 11).
2
The articles were the two parts of Treviranus’s paper, ‘Ueber dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Charles Darwin’ (On dichogamy according to C. C. Sprengel and Charles Darwin; Treviranus 1863). CD’s copy of Treviranus 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL is lightly annotated.
3
No reply has been found.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 two numbers] ‘two’ interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3897F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3897F