To A. B. Buckley 26 August [1881]1
Down Beckenham
August 26th.
My dear Miss Buckley
The Orange has arrived, and is a prodigy of which I have never seen the like.— I do not believe that it is an orange; and I remember that Gallesio describes some gigantic fruit (Adam’s apple, I think), about which there have been many disputes, whether a distinct species, or variety or a hybrid. We cut it open and the inside is as curious as the outside, and the pale flesh-coloured contents intensely acid.2
I am glad to hear that you are going to York and hope that you will enjoy it. I was at York very many years ago and admired the Minster beyond measure.—3
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gallesio, Georgio. 1816. Teoria della riproduzione vegetale. Pisa: Niccolò Capurro.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Comments on large orange.
Glad she is going to York [BAAS meeting].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13297
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arabella Burton Buckley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 188
- Physical description
- C 1p
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13297,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13297.xml