To A. G. More   3 July [1860]1

Sudbrook Park | Richmond.—

July 3d.—

My dear Sir

I thank you heartily for all your great kindness. I received this morning the specimens quite fresh & was very glad to see them.—2

The Bee-orchis ought to be looked to when flowers are beginning to wither.—

I shall be most grateful for the E. palustris & it will be all the better for me in 10 days time.—3 Please see that there are some buds; as these are the best in some respects for points of structure which I am examining.—

It is a shame that you so kindly will mulct yourself of sundry red stamps.—

On the 10th or 11th my address will be at

Rev. C. Langton’s

Hartfield

Tonbridge Wells4

& I will take with me my microscope & dissecting tools, which unfortunately I have not here with me.—

In Haste & with cordial thanks, believe me | My dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin

1
CD was at Sudbrook Park from 28 June to 7 July 1860 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). This letter was first published in Correspondence vol. 8, transcribed from a copy on which the year is recorded (DAR 146: 388).
2
See letters to A. G. More, 24 June [1860] and [30 June 1860].
3
CD thanked More for sending him specimens of Epipactis palustris in Orchids, p. 95 n.
4
Charles Langton had married Emma Darwin’s sister Charlotte in 1832. Their home at Hartfield Grove was only a quarter of a mile from The Ridge, where Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood lived.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2857,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2857