From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]1
Shrewsbury
Wednesday
Dear Uncle Charles
We made a mad rush this morning after the Hottonia before we started, but I am sorry we could only find 1 specimen of long pistil and we had no time to hunt for more and they were rather withered as we could not pack them at once—2
We are very much obliged to you for sending us such a full account of the Lythrums but I am afraid it must have been a great deal of trouble—3 We went out Lythrum-hunting again but could only find 8 plants of which 1 was long style 2 mid-style & 5 short style4
We go home tomorrow after sleeping this one night here, Aunt Susan comes home today or tomorrow,5 it is very provoking missing her—
I am very glad Lenny will soon be strong enough to move to the sea6
Yr affec | Margaret S. Wedgwood
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3674
- From
- Margaret Susan Wedgwood/Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Shrewsbury
- Source of text
- DAR 181
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3674,” accessed on 13 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3674.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10