To George Gordon 4 July [1861]1
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
July 4th
My dear Sir
I must thank you for your extraordinary kindness to me about Corallorhiza.2 Mr Watson forwarded to me your note to him3 & he suggested Prof. Balfour to whom I have written.4 I fear that there is no chance of my succeeding; but I am sure I am not the less obliged to you for your great kindness.—
My dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is given by reference to the Darwins’ stay in Torquay.
Gordon had offered to assist CD in acquiring specimens of the orchid Corallorhiza. See letter to George Gordon, 22 June [1861].
The letter from Hewett Cottrell Watson has not been found. Gordon presumably wrote to him after receiving CD’s letter of 17 June [1861]: see letter from H. C. Watson to George Gordon, 27 June 1861, and letter from George Gordon to John Hutton Balfour, 1 July 1861.
John Hutton Balfour was professor of botany at Edinburgh University and director of the Royal Botanic Garden. See letter from George Gordon to John Hutton Balfour, 1 July 1861
Summary
Thanks GG for his great kindness about Corallorhiza. CD will try to get plants from J. H. Balfour.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3199
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Gordon
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.11)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3199,” accessed on 8 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3199.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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