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To Smith, Elder, and Company   29 June [1843]

Down. | Bromley | Kent

June 29th

Dear Sir

Would you so far oblige me as to inform me, whether you have the means to send (at the expence of not more than a few shillings) two quarto pamphlets to a Professor at Massachussetts in the United States— I am anxious to send to him two Papers of mine & have no notion how to effect it.1

Excuse me troubling you & believe me Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

ALS

Postmark: JY 1 1843

1
Neither the papers referred to nor their intended recipient have been identified, although it is possible that CD wished to send copies of his geological papers to Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College. At this time, CD did not know Asa Gray, professor of botany at Harvard.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-677A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-677A