From A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
The Dell, Grays, Essex.
Novr. 7th. 1875
Dear Darwin
Many thanks for your beautiful little volume on Climbing plants,—which forms a most interesting companion to your Orchids & Insectivorous Plants.1 I am sorry to see that you have not this time given us the luxury of cut edges.2
I am in the midst of printing and proof sheets,—which are wearisome in the extreme from the mass of names & statistics I have been obliged to introduce, & which will I fear make my book insufferably dull to all but zoological specialists.3
My trust is in my pictures & maps to catch the public.
Hoping yourself and all your family are quite well | Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
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.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10247
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Grays
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B123
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10247,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10247.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
