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To ?   24 October [1876]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Oct 24th

My dear Sir

Pray thank Prof. Reichenbach for his great kindness.—2 I am sorry that you & he have had the trouble; for a plant at Kew was afterwards discovered in flower & was sent to me, so that I was able to examine well the doubtful point—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 September 1876. The unidentified recipient had probably tried to obtain an orchid specimen for CD (see n. 2, below).
2
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was director of the botanical gardens at Hamburg and an expert on orchids.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10221F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10221F