My dear Sir

Your excellent article in the Gardeners Chronicle has led, I have no doubt, to my receiving the enclosed letter, from a very great man, the Governor General of Turkestan, and he encloses his letter in an envelope worthy of his lofty position!—² I should hope and think that a collection of the varieties of wheat from such little known regions might possess some interest. Shall I send them to you to describe or to do whatever you may think fit, whenever I receive them? If so, will you kindly make any memoranda which may be required, from the enclosed letter, which be so good as to return, as I must thank his Excellency for his gracious act.³

Pray believe me, my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin