Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1882–3]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 261
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
No summary available.
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Describes grafting experiment of Baron de Villa Franca, which produced new varieties of sugar-cane. Encloses related documents.
In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.
Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.
Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.
No summary available.
No summary available.
No summary available.
Darwin's funeral.
No summary available.
No summary available.