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Darwin Correspondence Project

To [M. T. Masters?]   7 March 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

March 7. 75

My dear Sir

I do not know whether you are the Author of the Article on me in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, but suppose so.1 Whoever the Author may be, I am much pleased with & grateful for the honour conferred on me in it. I wish that I deserved half of what is said.

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

An editorial article on CD appeared in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 March 1875, pp. 308–9. Masters had been editor of the magazine since 1865. The article praised CD for his contribution to horticulture through his work on plant physiology, citing his research on variation, inheritance, reversion, bud variation, acclimatisation, carnivorous plants, climbing plants, and descent as the basis of rational classification.

Summary

Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9880
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9880,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9880.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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