To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862]1
My dear William
I write in hurry to say Lenny so ill (but not I hope dangerously) that I cannot attend to anything:2 so do not send off Valerian, till you hear.—3
How capitally you have been working— The Erythræa seems grand new case, if it does not fail.—4 Look to roughness of stigmas & size of pollen-grains in the 2 forms.—
I shd. enjoy quoting your observations.— I have hardly considered Valerian yet—
It is a fearful illness of Lenny | yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3650
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 12
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3650,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3650.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10