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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 April [1879]1

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

Many thanks for your memoranda about Seeds & for all your trouble—2 I thought that I received Ipomœa jucunda formerly from Kew, but I certainly received them from some one under this name.—3

C.D.

Ap. 3d.

ApcS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879.
2
The memoranda, which have not been found, concerned the list of seeds that CD had requested from Kew (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879).
3
CD had asked for seeds of Ipomoea jucunda in his letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 March 1879. Ipomoea jucunda is in the family Convolvulaceae; it is a species of morning-glory native to Sri Lanka.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11973,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11973