To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 April [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Ap. 14
Dear Mr Dyer
I am very much obliged for your present of Sachs.2 I am particularly glad to have a copy, for all that I have read of the book has made me a most ardent admirer of it
Pray believe me to be | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to Sachs 1875a (see n. 2, below).
Thiselton-Dyer had assisted in the translation of Julius Sachs’s Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological (Sachs 1875a). See also letter from Moritz Traube, 2 March 1875 and n. 4.
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9930
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9930,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9930.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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