To Alphonse de Candolle 6 July [1881]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 6th
My dear M. De Candolle
I have just received a grand volume (Vol. Tertium) of the Prodromus, which I suppose that I owe to you or your sons great kindness, & for which I am much obliged.—2
If, however, I owe the volume to any one of the authors of the several monographs, I daresay you will have before long some communication with him & will you then be so good as to express my acknowledgements. I have just returned from a 5 weeks holidays at our English Lakes, which are so beautiful that I think they must almost vie with the Swiss lakes.3 As a consequence of my holidays I have a pile of letters to answer.
Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Candolle, Alphonse de and Candolle, Casimir de, eds. 1878–96. Monographiæ phanerogamarum: prodromi nunc continuatio nunc revisio. 9 vols. Paris: G. Masson.
Summary
Thanks for a "grand volume" [vol. 3 of Monographiae phanerogamarum (1878–96)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13236
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alphonse de Candolle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13236,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13236.xml
