To H. C. Watson 28 May [1864]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 28
My dear Mr Watson
I am extremely obliged to you for all the trouble that you have taken in sending me so many specimens of the Lythrum.2 They have been of great use to me but were actually more than I wanted I was glad to look at the Texas species.3
I have at last finished my Lythrum paper, which I hope you will think curious.4
Pray believe me | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Calendar: A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994.
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Thanks HCW for Lythrum specimens.
CD has at last finished his Lythrum paper. ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4512
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 51
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4512,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4512.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12