Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.
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Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.
Declines invitation to visit DN’s orchid collection. Thanks for orchids and list [of available plants]. Requests a few more spikes of Bolbophyllum, particularly of species with irritable labellum.
Thanks for orchids and other flowers.
Will send photograph.
Thanks Dorothy Nevill for her assistance in supplying him with plants, but he will not require any more. Asks her to remember him to A. E. Knox.
Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.
Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.
Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].
Thanks for promise of photograph.
Has no melastomads in bloom.
Describes sensitive anthers of Cynorchis.
Thanks CD for "your little pamphlet".
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].