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To George Bentham   13 October [1862]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Oct 13th

Dear Bentham

You sent me some time ago Hist. notes on Cultivated Plants by Targioni-Tozzetti, & which I wish occasionally to quote. I hate quoting an anonymous work. Would you have the kindness to allow me to add your name,—that is of course if you have no objection. Otherwise I must say a “Writer”.—2

If not much trouble could you tell me the volume & year & first page of Hort. Journal, in which it appears, as none of these very necessary elements appear.—

Pray forgive me troubling you & believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship to the letter from George Bentham, 15 October 1862.
2
There is an annotated presentation copy of Bentham’s anonymous synoptical review of Targioni Tozzetti 1853 ([Bentham] 1855) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. [Bentham] 1855 is frequently cited in chapters 9 and 10 of Variation; CD’s ‘Journal’ (Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II) records that he began to work on the section of Variation dealing with ‘Facts of variation of Plants’, on 7 October 1862.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

3.1 Pray] altered from ‘Pary’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3760,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3760