To ? 7 June 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station. | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 7. 1877
My dear Sir,
I am much obliged to you for sending me your paper with its kind allusions to my last book.1 I leave home early tomorrow2 & will take your essay with me. The subject is a very interesting one. I fear that you will not care about my next book.3
My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10989
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10989,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10989.xml