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From Francis Galton   26 November 1875

42 Rutland Gate SW

Nov 26/75

My dear Darwin

How can I thank you sufficiently for the trouble you have taken with the peas, which arrived last night in beautiful order.1 You must let me know when we next meet, if there is anything I owe you for payments of any kind connected with them. Will you in the mean time, give the enclosed 10s. (I send an order made out in your name) to the gardener, from me?— & tell him that I am much obliged for his care.2

Ever yrs. | Francis Galton

Romanes has told me much of his wonderfully interesting results with the Medusæ.3

Footnotes

CD had sent a box of sweetpea seeds to Galton for his experiments (see letter to Francis Galton, 22 September 1875 and n. 6, and letter to Francis Galton, 10 November [1875]).
The gardener who normally assisted CD in botanical experiments was Henry Lettington.
George John Romanes had been working on the nervous system of medusae (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 24 September [1875] and n. 8).

Summary

Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10278
From
Francis Galton
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Rutland Gate, 42
Source of text
DAR 105: A90–1
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10278,” accessed on 13 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10278.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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