To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
29
My dear Sir
Many many thanks for the Curare received last night.: I will be very careful not to waste it.—2 I shall not use it for about 3 weeks, when I intend leaving home for a month & will then resume my work, as an amusement, on Drosera.— I am so glad to have got the Curare. If you pay me a visit, I shall like to explain what I intend trying.— What you say, however, about Amœbæ is a damper.3
Yours gratefully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871].
See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4, and letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871]. CD spent most of August 1871 at Haredene in Albury, Surrey.
Summary
Thanks him for curare.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7837
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Michael Foster
- Sent from
- London Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead
- Postmark
- JU 29 71
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7837,” accessed on 5 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7837.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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