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From Joseph Fayrer   8 July 1875

16 Granville Place

8 July 1875

Dear Mr. Darwin

Very many thanks for the copy of your last work just received.1 I shall prize it highly, and read it with great interest.

I am going out to India with the Prince of Wales2 if I can do anything there for you I shall be honoured by your commands   I trust you are well!

Believe me | Your’s very truly | J. Fayrer

Footnotes

1
Fayrer’s name is on the presentation list for Insectivorous plants (Appendix IV). He had supplied CD with information about the effects of cobra poison (see Correspondence vol. 22 and Insectivorous plants, pp. 206–8, 224).
2
Fayrer accompanied Albert Edward (later Edward VII) on his tour of India from October 1875 to May 1876 (ODNB s.v. Fayrer, Sir Joseph).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Summary

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest work [Insectivorous plants].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10053
From
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Granville Place, 16
Source of text
DAR 164: 113
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10053,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10053.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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