To A. G. More 3 July [1860]1
Sudbrook Park | Richmond.—
July 3d.—
My dear Sir
I thank you heartily for all your great kindness. I received this morning the specimens quite fresh & was very glad to see them.—2
The Bee-orchis ought to be looked to when flowers are beginning to wither.—
I shall be most grateful for the E. palustris & it will be all the better for me in 10 days time.—3 Please see that there are some buds; as these are the best in some respects for points of structure which I am examining.—
It is a shame that you so kindly will mulct yourself of sundry red stamps.—
On the 10th or 11th my address will be at
Rev. C. Langton’s
Hartfield
Tonbridge Wells4
& I will take with me my microscope & dissecting tools, which unfortunately I have not here with me.—
In Haste & with cordial thanks, believe me | My dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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 orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2857
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alexander Goodman More
- Sent from
- Sudbrook Park
- Source of text
- Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2857,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2857.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
