To George Maw 21 June [1866]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
June 21st
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in remembering my desire for information about sports, & for the curious & nicely dried specimen received yesterday. As it happens I have already seen this case, but I am not the less grateful to you for your kindness—1
Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks GM for a specimen; it is a sport with which he is already familiar.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5130
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Maw
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- London S X JL[U] 22 66; Broseley JU 2[3] 66
- Source of text
- Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/13)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5130,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5130.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14