To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 January [1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 27th
My dear Dyer.
Asa Gray has sent me cotton-seeds (so that I now have a superfluity) & he asks me to ask Hooker whether you know a var. of Cotton called the “Vine Cotton”.2 A planter3 in the S. wants some seed of this var, & Gray wants to send him some.— Can you oblige them by sending such seeds to Gray?
The Planter says he formerly received the seeds of this var. from England.—
Ever yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
If you will let me hear sometime I will write to Gray or if you are writing to him you can just say whether you know the var.
Footnotes
Summary
Asa Gray wants seeds of a variety of cotton known as vine cotton.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12440
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 203–4)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12440,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12440.xml
