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To A. Y. Spearman   9 October 1843

Down near Bromley | Kent

October 9th— 1843

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 Second number of the Fifth Part of the “Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle” which is now published & which completes the Work.1 The expenditure of each part has been, as before, under my superintendence & the accounts have been examined by me.— I beg permission to express my grateful thanks to the Lords Commissioner for the assistance they have been pleased to render in the publication of this Work, & I have the honour to remain Sir | Your obliged & obedt. servant | Charles Darwin To the | Secretary of the Treasury

1
Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated 14 October 1843, detailing the various costs of Reptiles, No. 2. The total expense was £62 7s. 3d., but only £40 4s. 5d. was claimed since the final balance of £1000 had been reached. It seems that Smith, Elder & Co. had forward-dated their account by 5 days. CD’s letter with the account was registered by the Treasury on 10 October 1843 (endorsement on cover) and was read on 17 October (note on cover).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.2 9] over ‘8’
1.6 by] ‘b’ over ‘I’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-702A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-702A