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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   4 July [1879?]1

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

July 4th

My dear Dyer

No man has a right to be so goodnatured as you are, for it must make others uncomfortable & ashamed of themselves! But I am very glad to have the Drosophyllum seeds, though it is but a small point which I wish so much to observe.2

Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin

1
The year is conjectured from the reference to seeds of Drosophyllum; CD had asked for seeds in his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879. The printed notepaper is of a sort that CD used between 1874 and 1882.
2
No record of the seeds having been sent from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has been found; the point CD wished to observe has not been identified. CD’s most recent extant notes on the monotypic genus Drosophyllum (Portuguese sundew or dewy pine), made on 1 August 1878, concerned the manner in which the first true leaves broke through the ground (DAR 209.6: 80b).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11033,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11033