From Henrietta Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [16 March 1864]1
Down,
Wednesday
Dear Wm.
If your mid-styled has the stigma pretty near the same height with the anthers Papa wd be very glad if you wd measure it, as the one he sent you was not a very middling one, but approached the long-styled.2 He is very much obliged to you for all your trouble.
He is pretty bad this morning, after a wretched sleepless night, but his cold makes him feel more weak & uncomfortable. There is a Bromley ball here on the 31st. but I spose you are not very likely to be here & I think it is equally unlikely I shall get a chap— if Papa is no better I don’t feel as if I had much heart to go. I will tell you what time Geo. means to be here so that I hope you will be able to meet him.3 I suppose Erny4 is on his way home now. doesn’t it seem a short time.
Ever your affec. | H. E. D.
Mama pretty well.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Colonial Office list: The Colonial Office list … or, general register of the colonial dependencies of Great Britain. London: Edward Stanford; Harrison & Sons. 1862–99.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’: On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 10 (1869): 393–437.
Summary
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3633
- From
- Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 116
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3633,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3633.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12