To Casimir de Candolle 1 August [1866]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Aug 1.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your kind present of your Mem. on the “Pipéracées”.2 I am sorry to say that I have not sufficient knowledge of botany fully to understand all the points which you discuss, but I can see that some of them are extremely interesting.
I should be much obliged if you wd give my sincere thanks to your father for the extremely kind letter which he wrote me when in London;3 I should have written to him at once had I known his address. It caused me sincere regret that the state of my health prevented me attending the Congress & having the great pleasure & honour of conversing with your father.4
With my best thanks pray believe me my dear Sir | yours very faithfully. | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
International Horticultural Exhibition 1866: International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress, held in London, from May 22nd to May 31st, 1866. Report of Proceedings. London: Truscott, Son, & Simmons.
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his Mémoire sur la famille de Piperacées [1866]. Regrets he has not sufficient knowledge of botany to understand all the points discussed.
Sorry his health prevented his attending [Botanical] Congress and meeting CdeC’s father.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5169
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5169,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5169.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
