To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 August [1862]
Down. | Bromley. |Kent. S.E.
Aug. 12th.
My dear Sir
I think yours is a capital but too kind & flattering an article on my orchid Book.—1 You are an excellent hand at writing & I know that you once attended much to Botany
Many thanks for Green feathers, which I am very glad to see.—
I much fear, from your not mentioning subject, that you have not got the Curatorship at Southampton.2 I write in hurry for I start tomorrow for a month to “Sea Villa, Bournemouth”, on account of one of my Boys, who has had frightfull illness of 8 weeks.3 All my work has gone of late to the dogs.—
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. 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.
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1862. Darwin on orchids. Weldon’s register of facts and occurrences relating to literature, the sciences, and the arts, 1 August 1862, pp. 38-9.
Summary
WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3687
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3687,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3687.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
