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From M. D. Conway   12 October [1876]1

2 Pembroke Gardens | Kensington.

Oct 12

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Rose M. Crawshay of Cyfarthfa Castle in S. Wales,2 sends us this morning some flowers, and among them one which she suggests might interest you, and which I accordingly send. She writes:— “I should be pleased if Mr. C. had any chance of sending these to Mr Darwin, whose address I do not know, nor am I acquainted with him. But doubtless the evident struggle on the part of the Eucharis Amazonica to become double wd. interest him as another instance of gradual evolution.”3

Faithfully yours | Moncure D Conway

1
The year is established by Conway’s address. He lived at 2 Pembroke Gardens in 1875 and 1876 (Post Office London directory), but he was in the United States during the second half of 1875 and so could only have written from this address in 1876 (Conway 1904, 2: 389).
3
Eucharis amazonica is a single-flowered lily in the family Amaryllidaceae.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13785,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13785