To George Gordon 6 July [1861]1
2. Hesketh Crescent Torquay
July 6th
My dear Sir
I thought I should never have trespassed on your kindness again.— But pray listen to my case, pity me & help me if you can.— Mr Jamieson promised to send me Listera cordata, but writes that he cannot this year find it.2 I then wrote to Prof. Dickie3 & I received yesterday some specimens sent in a wood little Box, consequently dry & crushed from being packed in compact moss & almost useless to me, but just sufficient to show me a certainly new point of structure. I wrote again to Prof. Dickie yesterday to beg him to send me more,4 but it is hopeless as he said after long search he could find only one little specimen with large buds (which are necessary for me).—
In the dead of the night it occurred to me that it might not be quite out of flower with you (if it grows near you) & I remembered your inexhaustible good nature, & the result is this note
Footnotes
Summary
Apologises for trespassing on GG’s kindness again. Believes there is a new point of structure in Listera cordata and asks GG to send specimens if it is still in flower.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3201
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Gordon
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.12)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3201,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3201.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9