To Hugo de Vries 19 February 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 19 1874
Dear Sir
I beg leave to thank you very sincerely for your kindness in having sent me your memoir on Climbing Plants which I shall be extremely glad to read soon.1
With my best thanks & respect I remain | dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
There are annotated offprints of Vries’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD cited them frequently in Climbing plants 2d ed., published in 1875.
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks for copies of HdV’s two articles on climbing plants (Vries 1873a and 1873b).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9303F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugo de Vries
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Artis Library (De Vries 1)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9303F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9303F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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