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To A. Y. Spearman   16 January 1840

12 Upper Gower St

Jan 16th. 1840

Sir

I have the honour to transmit, as on former occasions, for the approval of the Lords’ Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury the account of Mrss. Smith and Elder for the first number of the Fourth Part of the “Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle” which is now published.—1 I beg leave to state, that as before I have examined the account and superintended the expenditure of each part.—

I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obedient servant | Charles Darwin A. Y. Spearman Esqr

&c &c &c

Treasury Chambers.

1
Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated 1 January 1840, detailing the various costs of Fish, No. 1. The total expense was £43 12s. 10d.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.5 part] over ‘—-’
point omitted after : 1.5 ‘each’; 2.1 ‘Charles’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-550A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-550A