From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]1
Clapham
June 17.
My dear Sir,
You see I have taken the precaution of breaking up a very few days earlier than we intended— I feared possibilities.
I rejoice to hear that your boy is nearly convalescent.2
I shall send some work for the holidays, part of which is to be remitted to me in about a month. The more formal Examination I must defer until August 12 when the school re-assembles.
I am | dear Sir | faithfully yours | C. Pritchard
I desire my respects to Mrs Darwin.
I shall hunt for Pollen tubes in the I. Wight: but not under -/10—but try what I can do with an erecting eye-piece and inch object glass giving me a power [lumina] of about 90.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3607
- From
- Charles Pritchard
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Clapham
- Source of text
- DAR 174.2: 77
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3607,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3607.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10