To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sept. 27th
My dear Dyer
You have sent us a most magnificent supply of Australian leaves, & Frank was hard at work all yesterday in removing bloom & weighing lots of leaves in our grand new chemical balance. The poor mertensia looks very bad & I fear will never revive, & this goes to my heart, as it seems to have splendid bloom.2
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 September 1877.
CD had requested leaves from Eucalyptus globulus and an Australian acacia in his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 September 1877. He also accepted Thiselton-Dyer’s offer of an oysterleaf plant (Mertensia maritima). He was conducting experiments with Francis Darwin into the function of bloom.
Summary
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11156
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11156,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11156.xml
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