Autograph letters and notes by Darwin

Correspondents include the geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) (no. 30). Letters are signed except no. 9, which is an unsigned compliments slip in Darwin's hand. Nos. 3-6 and 8 carry no date but have been placed in the chronological position assigned them by the editors of Darwin's correspondence. No. 15 is accompanied by a portrait print of Darwin; no. 31 is mounted on a sheet of card backed by a letter dated 1875 to Sir W. Boyd Dawkins F.R.S. (1837-1929).

1839-1882

32 items

Wellcome Images has copy of MS.7781/16 - L0051989-90

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.