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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   8 August [1876]1

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

Aug. 8th

Dear Dyer

Very many thanks for all your kindness about the Orchids.—2 I received the enclosed this morning; they look pretty & curious & I thought you might like to see them & then throw away.—3

Your article in last Nature seemed to me a capital one.—4

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 August 1876.
2
See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 August 1876 and n. 1. Thiselton-Dyer evidently sent some of the orchids CD had requested, but there is no entry in the ‘Outwards book’ (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) to indicate what was sent.
3
The specimen sent by CD has not been identified.
4
Thiselton-Dyer’s article ‘On the classification of the vegetable kingdom’ was published in Nature, 3 August 1876, pp. 293–5.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10573,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10573