To Lydia Wendland 7 June [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [Abinger Hall, Surrey.]
June 7th
D〈ear〉 Miss Wendland
I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in having made for m〈e〉 so beautiful a present as the fender-stool.2 [1 line illeg] in our drawing room [2 lines illeg] [g]rateful to you for [g]oing [to] so much trouble. I will venture to send you soon a copy of a book, just published by me, viz Insectivorous Plants; but this book is in no way beautiful, & I am not so inhuman as to expect you to read it.—3
Pray believe me, Dear Miss Wendland | Yours faithfully and obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10012F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Lydia Wendland
- Sent from
- Abinger Hall
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007)
- Physical description
- Incomplete
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10012F,” accessed on 5 March 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-10012F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
