To Abraham Clapham   10 December [1849]

Down Farnborough Kent

Dec. 10th

Dear Sir

I happened about a week since to be thinking whether I should hear from you this autumn,1 & accordingly was pleased to receive your obliging letter. Considering your removal & the multiplicity of business it must have cost you, it is quite surprising that you should have been enabled to make so many experiments on phloxes & the mimuli: I shall be very much obliged for particulars hereafter: it is certainly a most curious & interesting subject.—

Thank you for your enquiries about my health, which is greatly improved, though I am far yet from a strong man.—

With my best thanks & wishes for all sorts of success in your curious experiments. Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

1
See letter to Abraham Clapham, [29 October 1847?]. In Variation 1: 377, CD cited Clapham on hawthorn crosses and identified him as a ‘nurseryman of Bradford’. In letter from Abraham Clapham, 8 March 1850, Clapham gave his address as Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1278,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1278