To Daniel Oliver [22–3 September 1860]1
15 Marine Parade | Eastbourne
My dear Sir
This is my address.— I will write soon— I am grateful for your last note.—
I am dying to hear about pure gum2
[Yours] | C. Darwin.
P.S.3 | Will you be so kind as to dry a little of your Gum used on Drosera & burn it; perhaps you would detect smell of animal matter if any gelatine or glue used or size4 used.—
Any corrosive Sublimate??5
Could you send me, when you write, one leaf (& name) of Australian Drosera, that I may see it out of idle curiosity.—6
Footnotes
Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
Summary
Sends address.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2924
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Daniel Oliver
- Sent from
- Eastbourne
- Source of text
- DAR 261.10: 12 (EH 88205996) and part of DAR 261.10: 18 (EH 88206002)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2924,” accessed on 30 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2924.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8