To Daniel Oliver [10 October 1860]1
☞15 Marine Parade | Eastbourne | per Brighton Railway
Wednesday
My dear Sir
The morning post goes out immediately— one line to give my address for Plants Shall be delighted to try one or two experiments on D. spathulata— Plant cd come with Dionæa.—2 Will write again more leisurely.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The Wednesday before the letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [October 1860], was written.
CD had asked Oliver to send him a living specimen of Dionaea (see letter to Daniel Oliver, [29 September 1860]). He inquired about the Australian species of Drosera in the letters to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1860] and [22–3 September 1860].
Summary
Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2929
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Daniel Oliver
- Sent from
- Eastbourne
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2929,” accessed on 20 January 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2929.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
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