To Asher & Co. 31 December [1874–81]¹

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | ☞ (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Dec 31^st

M^r. Ch Darwin w^d. be obliged to M^ess Asher to have parcel sent to Orpington St.—²

The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from late 1874.

Messrs Asher were booksellers in London; it is not known what was in the parcel.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 ☞ (Railway … S.E.R.)] pointing hand and parentheses added

1.1 Ch] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9790F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9790F

Please to send parcel to Orpington Station.

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30-Supplement.