To W. C. Tait 18 April [1869]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent.
Ap. 18th.
Dear Sir
I am not very well owing to a fall from my horse & so write a line merely to thank you for your very obliging letter of April 13th.2 I hear the plants are going on very well, but I have not been able to go for a week to the greenhouse.
I have this day ordered my Orchis Book to be sent to Messrs. Rossari & will send there my paper on Climbing Plants.3 I feel sure that there will be no occasion to trouble you for any more of the Drossophyllum.
Whenever I go to London I will inquire of the Secretary of the Zoolog. Soc. whether they wish for any quadrupeds or birds from Portugal.4
With many thanks for all your kindness, believe me, | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Not well owing to fall from horse.
[Drosophyllum] plants going on very well.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6705
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Chester Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Alan R. Tait (private collection)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6705,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6705.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
