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From J. T. Moggridge   14 October [1865]1

32 Eastbourne Terrace

Oct. 14

Dear Sir

Your most kind & gratifying letter arrived last night, accompanied by your pamphlet on climbing plants.2

Thank you very much for it, & also for two other similar tho smaller treatises which after much delay reached me from my old home at Swansea—3

I shall take the greatest pleasure in endeavouring to execute your commission; &, should I be able to manage it, I shall send an instalment coming into flower by rail or private hand as well.4

With many warm thanks | believe me | yours very sincerely | J Traherne Moggridge.

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. T. Moggridge, 13 October [1865].
3
CD probably sent copies of his papers ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’ and ‘Two forms in species of Linum’ to The Willows, Swansea, the address Moggridge had written from in the summer of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. T. Moggridge, 19 July [1864]). Moggridge’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’ (see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix III).
4
CD had asked Moggridge to send him live specimens of Ophrys arachnites (a synonym of Ophrys fuciflora, the late spider-orchid); see letter to J. T. Moggridge, 13 October [1865]).

Bibliography

‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

‘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.]

‘Two forms in species of Linum’: On the existence of two forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum. By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 7 (1864): 69–83. [Collected papers 2: 93–105.]

Summary

Thanks for "Climbing plants".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4915
From
John Traherne Moggridge
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Eastbourne Terrace, 32
Source of text
DAR 171.2: 203
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4915,” accessed on 20 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4915.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13

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