To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 4 July [1879?]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 4th
My dear Dyer
No man has a right to be so goodnatured as you are, for it must make others uncomfortable & ashamed of themselves! But I am very glad to have the Drosophyllum seeds, though it is but a small point which I wish so much to observe.2
Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is conjectured from the reference to seeds of Drosophyllum; CD had asked for seeds in his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879. The printed notepaper is of a sort that CD used between 1874 and 1882.
No record of the seeds having been sent from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has been found; the point CD wished to observe has not been identified. CD’s most recent extant notes on the monotypic genus Drosophyllum (Portuguese sundew or dewy pine), made on 1 August 1878, concerned the manner in which the first true leaves broke through the ground (DAR 209.6: 80b).
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11033
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11033,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11033.xml
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