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To ?   13 June [1872–4]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

June 13th

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as not to send any parcels to me by my post address, as each thus costs nearly 2s.2 If you wd. send all parcels to my Brothers House3

“6. Queen Anne St

Cavendish Sqre

London,”

(& make a memorandum of this address) I shd. be greatly obliged.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from 1872 to 1874.
2
In 1870, the Post Office abolished the inland pattern post (for commercial patterns and samples), which had provided a de facto parcel post (Economist, 31 December 1870, p. 1576; London Quarterly Review 38 (1872): 275). Parcels would have been conveyed by carriers and delivery companies, who might have charged on delivery. Books would have been sent by the Post Office’s book post, so this letter is unlikely to concern books.
3
CD’s brother was Erasmus Alvey Darwin.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 my] after del ‘my’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8379F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8379F