Darwin, Three autograph notes to Williams and Norgate, and related material, 1880

Property from the Garrett Herman Collection

DARWIN, CHARLES

Two autograph cards signed (“C.D.”, "C. Darwin"), to the booksellers and publishers Williams and Norgate, and an autograph note signed ("C. Darwin"), presumably to the same recipient

all asking to be sent books, including E. Ray Lankester's Degeneration, Bastian's The Brain as an Organ of Mind, and others, the note in pencil, the cards on headed stationery of Mrs Darwin (corrected to "Mr"), 3 pages, Down House, 28 April to 3 May 1880 (where dated); with a note from Williams and Norwood to Darwin, drawing his attention to the publication of A. Netter's De l'Intuition dans les découvertes et inventions, 14 Henrietta Street, London, 16 March 1880; also with an oval woodburytype photographic portrait of Darwin taken from Cooper and Whitfield's Men of Mark(London, 1876-83), all five items framed together and glazed (frame size 340 x 615mm), puncture holes through all four notes

Williams and Norgate were publishers and booksellers who specialised in importing foreign scientific literature.

LITERATURE:

Grolier Club, Darwin (2004), pp.36-37

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