From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]1
Rye Lane | Peckham
My dear Sir
I have to thank you greatly for a copy of your new work on orchid fertilizn.2
I was so struck with your paper at the Linnæan that I promise myself very great pleasure and interest from the perusal of your book3
I see another book is promised on the Variation of plants & animals etc4 I need hardly say that if it is in my power to give you any information as to the natural & abnormal variations in plants (to wh. I have paid some little attention)—I shall be delighted to do so5
Believe me dear Sir | With many thanks | Your’s faithfully | Maxwell T Masters
Ch.as Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum’: On the three remarkable sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum, an orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 151–7. [Collected papers 2: 63–70.]
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3551
- From
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Peckham
- Source of text
- DAR 171.1: 66
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3551,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3551.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10