To William Allport Leighton 26 November [1862]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Nov. 26th
My dear Sir
Will you forgive me troubling you.— Prof. Oliver has called my attention to your papers published so long ago as 1842 on Epilobium angustifolium.—2 He suggests as possible that these forms may be reciprocally connected like the two forms of Primula. I much doubt this fact; but as I am working on Dimorphism, I shd. very much like to grow the two forms to experiment on.— Is there any chance of your being able to anyhow procure & send me roots of the two forms; it would be a great kindness if you could.— Anyhow pray excuse me venturing to trouble you.—
With my hopes that your health is good,3 I beg leave to remain, my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
address for Parcel
C. Darwin
Care of Down Postman
Bromley—
Kent
per Rail.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, Janet. 1995. Charles Darwin. Voyaging. Volume I of a biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Summary
For his work on dimorphism, CD asks WAL if he can send roots of two forms of Epilobium angustifolium. He doubts that they are reciprocally connected like the two forms of Primula, but will try the experiment.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3832
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Allport Leighton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Milton D. Forsyth, Jr (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3832,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3832.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
