To Victor Marshall 4 November [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington, S.E.R.)
Nov. 4th
My dear Mr Marshall
Owing to the miserable summer everyone of the acorns has dropped off my Cork Tree.2 I will therefore consult Sir J. Hooker whether Quercus rubra or coccinea is the handsomest species, & have one sent you in a few days for my own honour & glory.—3
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879.
CD had hoped to send acorns from a cork oak tree for Marshall to plant in his garden as a memorial of CD’s visit (see letter to Victor Marshall, 14 September 1879).
Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quercus rubra is northern red oak; Quercus coccinea is scarlet oak. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1879].
Summary
Promises to send an oak.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12289
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.459)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12289,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 27
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