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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   31 July [1881?]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

July 31

Dear Sir

I am greatly obliged to you for your very kind note & sending me the valuable plant. The appearance on arrival was rather piteous, & there are hardly any fibrous roots.2 But every possible care shall be taken of it, for my own sake & that of Kew.

Permit me again to thank you cordially & I remain, dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is conjectured from a note on the letter, which may be an endorsement or an archivist’s note.
The note has not been found and the plant has not been identified. For CD’s interest in fibrous-rooted plants around this time, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October 1881 and n. 5.

Summary

Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13267
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13267,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13267.xml

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