To ? 24 October [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 24th
My dear Sir
Pray thank Prof. Reichenbach for his great kindness.—2 I am sorry that you & he have had the trouble; for a plant at Kew was afterwards discovered in flower & was sent to me, so that I was able to examine well the doubtful point—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 September 1876. The unidentified recipient had probably tried to obtain an orchid specimen for CD (see n. 2, below).
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was director of the botanical gardens at Hamburg and an expert on orchids.
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10221F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10221F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10221F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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