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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

The paper has not been identified. CD’s most recent book was Cross and self fertilisation.
CD stayed at Leith Hill Place in Surrey, from 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II).
CD’s next book was Forms of flowers.

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

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