To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 8 August [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Aug. 8th
Dear Dyer
Very many thanks for all your kindness about the Orchids.—2 I received the enclosed this morning; they look pretty & curious & I thought you might like to see them & then throw away.—3
Your article in last Nature seemed to me a capital one.—4
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 August 1876.
See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 August 1876 and n. 1. Thiselton-Dyer evidently sent some of the orchids CD had requested, but there is no entry in the ‘Outwards book’ (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) to indicate what was sent.
The specimen sent by CD has not been identified.
Thiselton-Dyer’s article ‘On the classification of the vegetable kingdom’ was published in Nature, 3 August 1876, pp. 293–5.
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10573
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 43)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10573,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10573.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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