From D. F. Nevill 8 [September 1874]1
Dangstein | Petersfield
My dear Sir
We keep the Drosera in a house with a north aspect and hardly any heat—and damp— The gardener says you must syringe it and that will produce the dew on it—in a short time— it does not stand in a saucer of water—2 We have small plants of Utricularia Montana which may perhaps be the plant you mean—3 They are seedlings from our parent plant and we could well spare you one for good
I can assure you it is a great pleasure as well as an honour to contribute in however small a degree towards your interesting investigations— I only wish (when I am in London) that I might have the pleasure of coming down for an hour and making your personal acquaintance but perhaps that would be too much to expect but always believe anything we have we will willingly send you
believe me | Ys truly | D Nevill
8th.
Footnotes
Summary
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9628
- From
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Dangstein, Petersfield
- Source of text
- DAR 172: 20
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9628,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9628.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22