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To Williams & Norgate   13 April [1874]

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Ap. 13th

Dear Sir

I enclose a cheque.—1

I am aware that I often give you an unreasonable amount of trouble, but if it is possible to get odd numbers of the “Flora” (German), I very much want nors. 28 & 29 of the year 1873.2 Or if necessary half a volume for the year.— Pray help me as far as you can

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

If the book is not very expensive I wd have if necessary the whole vol. for the year 1873.

Endorsement: ‘1874 | Ch. Darwin Esq | Down | April 16’

1
CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS) record a payment of £3 7s. on 10 April 1874 to Williams & Norgate, a London bookseller specialising in science and foreign language publications.
2
Issues 28 and 29 of the German journal Flora (1873) contained a two-part article by the Russian botanist Alexander Feodorowicz Batalin on nyctitropism in leaves (Batalin 1873). CD’s annotated copy with a separate sheet of notes is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The article is cited in Movement in plants, pp. 283, 321–2, 387.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9406,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9406