To ? 9 October [1856]1
Down Bromley | Kent
Oct. 9th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kind note & for all the very great trouble which you have so kindly taken for me. Next summer would not be at all too late, & if you can remember it, I shd be extremely glad to get some for my experiments.2
I have been myself keeping Helix Pomatia in confinement all summer, but they have not laid a single egg, so that I have not at all profited by my scheme.3
With many thanks, & hopes that your correspondent may succeed for me next summer. I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Chas. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1972
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1972,” accessed on 1 April 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1972.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
