To William Kemp 24 [April 1843]1
Down | Bromley | Kent
24th
Dear Sir
I am glad you are willing to follow my advice about deferring your account till the plants have been ascertained.— I return the copy of the Paper you sent me.—2 I am sorry to say I have not yet heard from Mr. R. Brown & I fear my letter has miscarried or perhaps he waits till I see him in town: I will not fail to write if he has anything particular to observe.—3
I have heard from Prof. Lindley, who says one of the seeds is certainly a Polygonum & the other probably a Chenopodium: he anticipates they will turn out common species— He has had seeds carefully planted & will communicate the result to me if they germinate.—4
I hope you will carefully dry some of your specimens in their flowering & seeding state | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Has not yet heard from R. Brown, but John Lindley thinks species will probably turn out to be common ones.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-672F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Kemp
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/15) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 672F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-672F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
