Looking for transcript of letter from Mary Anning to William Buckland

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

Hey everyone

I'm back again with another Mary Anning-related question...

I was recently reading a short biography of Mary Anning (Davis 2012). In the section on Anning's discovery of ink sacs in cephalopod fossils, the author quoted part of a letter from Mary Anning to William Buckland, from the 6th of February 1829.

This is the excerpt of the letter:

 

“Do you remember the live creatures you had put in spirits (if so my description may be acceptable). I got two more, one alive and it whenever it was touched ejected a purple fluid (this one Mr. De la Beach [sic: Beche] coveted, and has taken to some Naturalist to be described). The second I dissected at Miss Philpot's, it first had a shell this shape [sketch inserted] very like a smooth pectin only more concave, also a sac or ink bag exactly resembling the small bag (like the gizzard of a fowel [sic: fowl]...”

 

Would anyone know where I can find a transcript of the whole letter?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

[piranha]

NHM has it in their collections. This citation is for a letter dated a couple days later:

 

Anning, M. 1829. Unpublished letter to William Buckland, dtd 8 Feb 1829.

Owen Collection, DF 100/2/5, British Museum of Natural History (London).

 

This NHM twitter feed photo shows another letter written a week later.

[The Amateur Paleontologist]

3 hours ago, piranha said:

NHM has it in their collections. This citation is for a letter dated a couple days later:

 

Anning, M. 1829. Unpublished letter to William Buckland, dtd 8 Feb 1829.

Owen Collection, DF 100/2/5, British Museum of Natural History (London).

 

This NHM twitter feed photo shows another letter written a week later.

Thanks a lot! Very much appreciated

[siteseer]

On 4/24/2020 at 11:24 AM, piranha said:

NHM has it in their collections. This citation is for a letter dated a couple days later:

 

Anning, M. 1829. Unpublished letter to William Buckland, dtd 8 Feb 1829.

Owen Collection, DF 100/2/5, British Museum of Natural History (London).

 

This NHM twitter feed photo shows another letter written a week later.

 

 

That's nice work, Scott.

 

Jess