To Adolph Reuter 24 July [1869]1
Down. Beckenham, Kent.
July 24th.
Dear Sir.
The trouble which you have in so kind a manner taken to communicate information to me is a great compliment to me, & I return you my sincere thanks— Your facts on inheritance are numerous & valuable & much more precise than most of those hitherto published— they would have been of the greatest use when preparing my work on the variation of cultivated plants, & if I have to correct a third edition may still be used by me.2 The case of the Ficus is truly wonderful3 I was lately assured that a flowering branch of the common Hedera could be propagated & would still retain its character, & now you have confirmed this statement, & have shewn that the same law holds good in other cases—4
With my best thanks & respects. | I remain | Dear Sir. | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13837
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Adolf Reuter
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 297
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13837,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13837.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)