To John Lindley 16 November [1861]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Nov. 16th
My dear Lindley
I thank you warmly for your two notes & the store of specimens received this morning.2
I am ashamed that you have sent so many valuable specimens; for it is a chance whether I can make out for my purpose anything from dried specimens.— But I shall be very glad to have a try, & so again thank you cordially.— I have had a most obliging note from Mr Rucker (to whom I used your name) with promise of Catasetum & some Dendrobium.—3 I have written also to Lady Dorothy.4
I know how many irons you have in the fire & will not be unreasonable & I hope give no more trouble.
Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3321
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lindley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3321,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3321.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9