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To A. Y. Spearman   5 August 1842

12 Upper Gower St

August 5. 1842

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 & Elder for the First number of the Fifth 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 the examined the account & superintended the expenditure of each part.

I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obedient & obliged servant | Charles Darwin To the | Secretary of the Treasury

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Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated August 1842, detailing the various costs of Reptiles, No. 1. The total expense was £43 2s. 0d.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-637A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-637A