From Francis Darwin to Horace Pearce 24 November 18761
We always keep the Drosera in a hot-house or green-house during the winter/ by this means fine plants are obtained for the following summer.2 I enclose my fathers autograph.
[Enclosure]
Charles Darwin | Down, Kent | October 25th.— 1876.—
Footnotes
The date is supplied by the auction catalogue.
This letter is probably a reply to Pearce’s letter of 16 November 1876 (Correspondence vol. 24).
Summary
Explains how they look after Drosera plants.
Encloses his father’s autograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10687F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Horace Pearce
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590)
- Physical description
- ALS inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10687F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10687F.xml
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