To Edward Frankland 3 May 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
My 3/76
My dear Dr Frankland
My son dispatched the two samples of earth yesterday.1 It is a most fortunate circumstance for us that we did not begin planting the seeds until hearing your judgement on the subject. It is an immense advantage to us to have the earth analysed: in fact our whole course of experiment would have been otherwise labour thrown away.2 From what you said, our chief hope now lies in the clayey sand dug up from a depth and on which plants will not naturally grow.
We are very anxious to hear the result, & with many thanks remain | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
His samples of earth have been sent for analysis. EF has saved CD and his son from wasted experimenting.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10495A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Frankland
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10495A,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10495A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24