To George Bentham 13 October [1862]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Oct 13th
Dear Bentham
You sent me some time ago Hist. notes on Cultivated Plants by Targioni-Tozzetti, & which I wish occasionally to quote. I hate quoting an anonymous work. Would you have the kindness to allow me to add your name,—that is of course if you have no objection. Otherwise I must say a “Writer”.—2
If not much trouble could you tell me the volume & year & first page of Hort. Journal, in which it appears, as none of these very necessary elements appear.—
Pray forgive me troubling you & believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Targioni Tozzetti, Antonio. 1853. Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell’ agricoltura ed orticoltura toscana. Florence.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3760
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3760,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3760.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
