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From Thomas Rivers   6 January [1865]

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Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.

His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.

Author:  Thomas Rivers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 176: 163
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4381

From Thomas Rivers   6 July 1865

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Thanks CD for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].

Encloses sketch of a climbing French bean.

Tells of a row of non-climbing haricot beans that in good season put out slender climbing shoots.

He has the peach almond in fruit this season.

Author:  Thomas Rivers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 July 1865
Classmark:  DAR 176: 164
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4866
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