From Lawson Tait 23 October [1875]1
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
Oct 23
My Dear Sir,
Thanks for your kind assent to my request. The paper will be ready in two or three weeks2
May I draw your attention to an article of mine in today’s Spectator on Pitcher Plants.3
Yours truly | Lawson Tait
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Lawson Tait, 14 October [1875].
See letter to Lawson Tait, 14 October [1875] and n. 2. CD agreed to present Tait’s paper on Nepenthes (the genus of tropical pitcher-plants) to the Royal Society of London.
‘Pitcher-plants’, Spectator, 23 October 1875, pp. 11–12.
Summary
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10217
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 20
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10217,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10217.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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