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To J. W. Salter   19 [June 1867]1

6 Queen Anne St | Cavendish Sqr. W.

Wednesday 19th

Dear Mr Salter

No one can be more sincerely glad than I am, on your own account & on that of Science, to hear that your circumstances are amended & your anxieties lessened.2 As you are so kind as to offer so freely the Supp. Eng. Bot. I shall be very much pleased to accept it, & you can send it by Deliv. Co. either here, or to

“C. Darwin

care of G. Snow

Nag’s Head

Borough.”3

I am generally so much tired in the evening, that I can go no where, but should I feel unususually strong I will attend at Geolog. Soc tonight.4 It has been a very great loss to me that I have been compelled to give up attending all Scientific meetings.—

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. W. Salter, 18 June 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
2
For Salter’s financial and mental state, see Secord 1985.
3
See Correspondence vol. 15, letter from J. W. Salter, 18 June 1867. Salter was the proprietor of the Supplement to the English botany of the late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby (W. J. Hooker, Sowerby [et al.] 1831–63). There is a copy of it in the Darwin Library–CUL. George Snow was the Down carrier; his London terminus was the Nag’s Head Inn in Borough.
4
Salter gave two papers at the 19 June meeting of the Geological Society of London: ‘On some tracks of Pteraspis (?) in the Upper Ludlow Sandstone’, and, jointly with Henry Hicks, ‘On a new Lingulella from the Red Lower Cambrian rocks of St. Davids’ (see Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 23 (1867): 333–41). There is no record of CD’s having attended.

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