To Richard Kippist   18 January [1865]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Jan 18th.

My dear Sir

I send by the carrier tonight a long paper for the Society.2 Will you have the kindness to send me one line to say that it has been received. I will write tomorrow—the post is going.3

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
A description of this letter was published in Correspondence vol. 13. The year is established by the reference to the ‘long paper’ sent to the Linnean Society (see n. 2, below), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] (Correspondence vol. 13).
2
The reference is to ‘Climbing plants’. In the letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] (Correspondence vol. 13), CD commented on the great length of the manuscript of ‘Climbing plants’, which he was about to send to the Linnean Society for publication. Richard Kippist was librarian of the Linnean Society (ODNB).
3
Kippist’s reply and CD’s second letter have not been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4747A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4747A