From Asa Gray 11 October [1868]1
Herbarium Kew
11, Oct.
Dear Darwin
It is sad to think of, that I should be weeks in England without setting eyes upon you, But the time that Hooker tells me is fixed is most convenient every way for our visit,—and we are as busy and happy as the day is long.2
This is to ask you if you raised this year and have any seeds of Passiflora gracilis that you would send by post to
Rev. R. W. Church3
Whatley, Frome
Somersetshire.—
to whom I have just sent your Climbing Plants paper.4
If you have not, please send this on to Mr Wm Thompson, Ipswich,5 who will I know kindly send a few, if not now, yet before they will be wanted.
Ever Yours | A. Gray
Footnotes
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.
Summary
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6931
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 170
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6931,” accessed on 8 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6931.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16