From Williams & Norgate   2 June 1868

14, Henrietta-Street, Covent-Garden. | London, W.C.

June 2 1868.

Ch. Darwin Esq

Dear Sir

We have ordered for you a copy of Seltegast, Thierzucht. We have not yet heard of a copy of Audubon’s Ornithol. Biogr. but are still looking out for one. Jerdon’s Birds of India we have advertized for but have not yet had a copy offered to us.1

We remain, Dear Sir | Your obedt Servant | for William & Norgate. S. Dodgshun2

1
The booksellers and publishers Williams & Norgate specialised in foreign scientific literature. The references are to Hermann Settegast and Settegast 1868, John James Audubon and Audubon 1831–[9], and Thomas Claverhill Jerdon and Jerdon 1862–4. Audubon 1831–[9] and Jerdon 1862–4 are cited frequently in Descent. There is an annotated copy of Audubon 1831–[9] in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 21–3), and a lightly annotated copy of Settegast 1868 in the Darwin Libary–Down (see Marginalia 1: 754).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6222,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6222