From Lawson Tait   23 October [1875]1

7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.

Oct 23

My Dear Sir,

Thanks for your kind assent to my request. The paper will be ready in two or three weeks2

May I draw your attention to an article of mine in today’s Spectator on Pitcher Plants.3

Yours truly | Lawson Tait

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Lawson Tait, 14 October [1875].
See letter to Lawson Tait, 14 October [1875] and n. 2. CD agreed to present Tait’s paper on Nepenthes (the genus of tropical pitcher-plants) to the Royal Society of London.
‘Pitcher-plants’, Spectator, 23 October 1875, pp. 11–12.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10217,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10217