From Asa Gray 12 January 1880
Herbarium of Harvard University, | Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass.
Jany 12 1880.
My Dear Darwin
So you want some cotton-seeds!1 I sent south for them, & here will be all you need, but you can have more. Two-kinds; those in the copious white wool probably best. That is ‘Green-seed’ from Alabama. The other is sea-island.2
The Man who sent the seed has heard of “Vine Cotton”, of which he once had a few seeds “sent from England” and he wants more—to grow.3 Now you ask Hooker4 if he knows of such a thing, and can get hold of some for this southern planter,—& will send by post hither.
Ever Yours | Asa Gray
Footnotes
Bibliography
Duff, Robert. 1866. British Guiana: being notes on a few of its natural productions, industrial occupations, and social institutions. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son.
Summary
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12416
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Herbarium of Harvard
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 201
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12416,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12416.xml
