From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]1
Southampton
June 14.
My Dear Father,
I am very glad to hear they got home all safe, I dare say you were not sorry to get them, it is very unlucky about poor old Pouts just before the holidays begin.2 I send off your watch some time today.3
Do you know any reason why I should not offer myself for Sunday the 22nd, as Dr Hooker told me to write as soon as I had fixed my Sunday.4 I shall come to Down on the Monday and go up for the ball on Tuesday, and back on Wednesday to the C. P. so to Down, and to Southampton on Thursday.5 I dont know whether Etty told you of my seeing a fly(?) sucking Orchis Maculata the wrong way standing above it, and peering over to suck and leaning over sideways to other flowers with out getting off first flower, so that the pollinia were glued unsymmetrically to its mouth and not to its trunk.6
You are reviewed in the Hampshire Advertizer but I have not seen it yet7
your affect son | W E Darwin
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3604F
- From
- William Erasmus Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Southampton
- Source of text
- Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3604F,” accessed on 27 July 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3604F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)