To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 April [1879]1
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.
Many thanks for your memoranda about Seeds & for all your trouble—2 I thought that I received Ipomœa jucunda formerly from Kew, but I certainly received them from some one under this name.—3
C.D.
Ap. 3d.
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879.
The memoranda, which have not been found, concerned the list of seeds that CD had requested from Kew (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879).
CD had asked for seeds of Ipomoea jucunda in his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879. Ipomoea jucunda is in the family Convolvulaceae; it is a species of morning-glory native to Sri Lanka.
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11973
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11973,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11973.xml
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