From Robert FitzRoy 20 June [1839]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-522.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-522,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-522

Summary

Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-522
From: Robert FitzRoy
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 20 June [1839]
Sent from: Bromham, Bedford
Source of text: DAR 204: 147
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2.