From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Down
June 11. 1877
My dear Father
I have got yr messages & will do them all square—1 There was a bigger sediment in the “cleaned” dish—but it is not soluble in ether.2 The teasels are all planted out & the case will be done tomorrow.3
Lettington is gone this morning for Drosera—4
I have made another big pot of mixture; the seeds have sprouted & he has begun watering—
I am glad you approve of the Nature letter.5 Here is a nice letter from Romanes6 Babs7 is all right: on Sat he lay on his back on a rug under the limes & roared with laughter looking up into the branches. We had a beautiful day for Atty & the D’Arcys8 On Sat Jimi and I dined at the Nashes to meet Moreley who spent sunday there9 They get on first rate I think.
This is written in an awful hurry
Good bye dearest father | your affec son | Frank
Please thank mother with my love for the key I will give her messages to Mary Ann10
Footnotes
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10994F
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 274.1: 2
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10994F,” accessed on 7 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10994F.xml