From Asa Gray 31 May 1872
Botanic Garden, | Cambridge, Mass.
May 31, 1872
My Dear Mr. Darwin
By the hands of an old correspondent of yours, and cousin of ours, Mr. Brace, I send you a little book, which may amuse you, in seeing your own science adapted to juvenile minds.1 In some of those hours in which you can do no better than read, or hear read, “trashy novels”, you might try this, instead.2 It will hardly rival “the Jumping Frog”, and the like specimens of American literature, which you first made known to us.3
Pray enable me to add a page or two at the end, by publishing your observations on Dionæa & Drosera.4
Ever, Dear Mr. Darwin | Yours sincerely | Asa Gray
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Twain, Mark. 1867. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, and other sketches. New York: C. H. Webb.
Summary
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8363
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass.
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 180
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8363,” accessed on 20 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8363.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20