From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]1
I was not a bit hurt as I practised getting out of the way at Down2 If the boys turn up tonight it is just possible, that I shall not be able to get your Lythrum.3
Why should I not dig you up a MP. plant or two and send them in hamper. I should think it would send you mad, & take years to do all the crosses4
Your affect son | W E Darwin
please get Mama to write before Brodie comes, also to send a letter of advice with her whether she is to eat with us or Mrs Pratt &c. I have written to Aunt Susan5
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3585G
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13)
- Physical description
- ALS inc 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3585G,” accessed on 9 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3585G.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)