From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project