To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4150,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4150

Summary

Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.

Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-4150
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Thomas Rivers
Date: [9 May 1863]
Sent from: Leith Hill Place
Source of text: DAR 185: 84
Physical description: 3pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.