Dear Sir

I happened about a week since to be thinking whether I should hear from you this autumn,¹ & accordingly was pleased to receive your obliging letter. Considering your removal & the multiplicity of business it must have cost you, it is quite surprising that you should have been enabled to make so many experiments on phloxes & the mimuli: I shall be very much obliged for particulars hereafter: it is certainly a most curious & interesting subject.—

Thank you for your enquiries about my health, which is greatly improved, though I am far yet from a strong man.—

With my best thanks & wishes for all sorts of success in your curious experiments. Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin