From Georgina Tollet 17 May [1862]1
30 Q. A. St
May 17
My dear Charles
Accept my best thanks for the Orchid book.2
My head is in too weak a state to read more than 2 or 3 pages at a time, but I enjoy these glimpses of the wonders you have discovered, exceedingly.
I much fear that I have no chance of talking it over with you this summer. Even if I were to get better before June 5, that awful day will certainly make me bad again.3
I wonder if you ever saw a bird’s nest built on the top of another.
In Ld Bradford’s shrubbery there is a hedgesparrow’s on the roof of a wren’s.4
I have not seen Mackintosh yet; all I hear of him alarms me much.5
With best love to Emma & thanks for her letter | Believe me | Yrs. affectly | G Tollet
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
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.
Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista.
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3556
- From
- Georgina Tollet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 30
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 128
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3556,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3556.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10