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To ?   5 June 1879

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

June 5 1879

Dear Sir

I thank you cordially for your kind letter & offer to send me the Calliandra; but I am much engaged on another subject, & have very little strength to spare, & therefore I cannot at present take up a new subject.—1 I looked, however, casually at the leaves & could see no signs of the absorption of animal matter, & therefore believe that the insects are caught only accidentally.—2 I am sorry to say my advice or opinion wd be of no service about the grafting, as I have had no experience.

I shd. very much like to pay you a visit but want of strength will prevent me.—

Again thanking you for your kindness, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
No letter offering to send CD a plant of Calliandra (the genus of stickpea) has been found.
2
Calliandra is a leguminous genus characterised by leaves that are bipinnate with one to many pairs of pinnae; the leaves close up at night.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 am] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12089,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12089