To Lawson Tait 14 October [1875]¹

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct. 14^th

My dear Sir

I shall be happy to do what you ask & present your paper on Nepenthes to the Royal Society—²

Yours very faithfully | Ch Darwin

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Lawson Tait, 11 October 1875.

See letter from Lawson Tait, 11 October 1875 and n. 1. Nepenthes is the genus of tropical pitcher-plants.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Kent. before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10199,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10199