From George Chichester Oxenden 5 June [1862 or 1864?]1
Broome
June 5
Dear Sir
I have this day sent you two or three “Musk-Orchis”,2 in a little Box—
They are in profusion, & you can have so many as you please—
—I consider him about as faultless a flower as any of the whole Brotherhood—
—On no account trouble yourself to write, unless I can work for you—
—Two or three young Ladies in my immediate neighbourhood are clever & active Plant-hunters, & first rate Artists also—
—This is great good fortune—
—This day I found fully 50 Bees—& some of the most perfect & dark-coloured Flies I ever came across—3
That which I have enclosed in the Box was growing in a Natural Curve, which is unusual—
Faithfully your’s | G. C. Oxenden
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Fertilization of orchids’: Notes on the fertilization of orchids. By Charles Darwin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 141–59. [Collected papers 2: 138–56.]
Orchids 2d ed.: The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877.
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
Sends musk orchid.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4520
- From
- George Chichester Oxenden
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Broome Canterbury
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 63
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4520,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4520.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12