From Thomas Rivers 17 May 1866
Bonks Hill, | Sawbridgeworth.
May 17/66
My dear Sir/
I hope to be at home when the Cytissus & Laburnum show their flowers & to a certainty will send you some of each.1
I found to day a curious (to me) instance of the Wistaria frutescens turning back on its own shoots— they will make a light package but too long for the post so I intend to send them per rail tomorrow paid to London.2
I rejoice much to hear of yr. restoration to health & hope to meet you on Saturday at Dr. Gray’s3
I am My dr Sir | Yrs. very truly | Thos. Rivers
I am trying to get the stain by cutting out the buds of Negundo variegata leaving the shields4 this is the most thorough variegation I know of in deciduous trees.
Footnotes
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Summary
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5094
- From
- Thomas Rivers
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Sawbridgeworth
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 165
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5094,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5094.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14