To Thomas Rivers 13 October [1866]1
Down Bromley Kent
Oct 13th
My dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for all the trouble which you have so kindly taken about the purple nuts. I was greatly interested in the case, but I find after seeing your specimens that I dare not trust my case.2
Indeed I wish most truly that I lived near you, or was strong enough to pay you a visit that I might profit by some of your varied knowledge; but such cannot be.
With many thanks, believe me | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Greatly interested in case of purple nuts but, after seeing TR’s specimens, dares not trust his case. Wishes he lived near TR or were strong enough to visit.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5241
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Rivers
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 86
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5241,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5241.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
