To W. E. Darwin [25 October 1862]1
My dear William.—
one word to say that if a Sunday be fine I shd. be very glad if you would test your observation on mid-styled & see what difference is in pods.—2 You might get dozen pods from other plant. Also, if then you could step distance from the old long-styled to nearest other plant & look what form that is.— I shall not publish this year & shall work out whole case very carefully.—3
We are most sincerely sorry about Maude A.—4
In Haste. Your | C. Darwin
Etty came home yesterday very brisk.—5
Poor Mamma is unwell with very feverish cold.—6
Saturday. Down—
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.
‘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
Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3782
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 106
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3782,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3782.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10