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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[21 October 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Thanks for letter and memoirs.
Suggests a "rather hopeless experiment" of introducing poisons into tissues of plants on the chance that monstrous growths may be produced.
Forwards a letter from his head brewer, Laurence Burleigh, on yeast. They seldom exchange yeast with other brewers, and he doubts whether weak yeast from one brewery will ferment strongly in another.
Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed
and sends a photo of himself.
Sends Book XI of JH's Iliad translation. Comments on Book XI. Severe bronchitis continues.