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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. E. Darwin   1 July [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 1st

My dear William

I have just heard, by the enclosed, about Utricularia.—2 Could you visit Winchester for me pretty soon & take a tin box or cannister & send me some plants with floating leaves (& some submerged leaves) pretty soon.—3

I want them much.

In Haste— Mama has been swearing at me for doing too much. | Yours affec | C. Darwin

If they have roots send them.—

Let me know by card before hand, that I may have all prepared for them.4

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22; republished in this volume, Supplement).
The enclosure has not been found. CD discussed Utricularia (bladderwort) in Insectivorous plants, published in 1875.
Winchester is about thirteen miles from Southampton, where William lived.
William’s reply has not been found, but he did not find any Utricularia in Winchester (see this volume, Supplement, letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.

Summary

Asks WED to visit Winchester soon and collect Utricularia for him

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9525F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Erasmus Darwin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 May 2017)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9525F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9525F.xml

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