My dear Galton

I am particularly obliged for your letter, & will write to D^r Ogle.¹ I think his case is different, and if you do not hear from me again, you will understand this to be the case.

I enclose a letter which when read kindly return to me.—² With respect to the sweet peas if you have time I think you had better come down & sleep here & see them. They are grown to a tremendous height & will be very difficult to separate. The ought to have been planted much further apart. They are covered with innumerable pods. The middle rows are now the tallest. Three of the plants are very sickly & one is dead. The row from the smallest peas are still the smallest plants.³ See what I say in Var under Dom Vol II p 347 about the peculiar properties of plants raised from the small terminal peas of the pods.⁴

I am surprised & very much pleased at your liking my “Insectivorous Plants.” I hope that your tour has done you much good—⁵

My dear Galton | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin