To M. T. Masters 31 August [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Aug. 31st
My dear Sir
I send a little article by this post, if you think it worth inserting in G. Chronicle.—2 If not, throw it into the fire. Should you print it, perhaps it wd. be well to send me a proof, as my hand-writing is so bad.—
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between May 1871 and January 1872.
CD sent an article about fertilisation in Leschenaultia (a synonym of Lechenaultia; see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 9 September 1871], which can now be dated [31 August 1871]).
Summary
Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7919F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7919F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7919F.xml
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