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To A. Y. Spearman   17 May 1841

12 Upper Gower St

May 17th. 1841

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 Mrs. Smith and Elder for the third number of the Part 4. 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 To the | Secretary of the Treasury

1
Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated April 1841, detailing the various costs of Fish, No. 3. The total expense was £37 1s. 0d.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-598B,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-598B