From J. T. Moggridge   14 October [1865]1

32 Eastbourne Terrace

Oct. 14

Dear Sir

Your most kind & gratifying letter arrived last night, accompanied by your pamphlet on climbing plants.2

Thank you very much for it, & also for two other similar tho smaller treatises which after much delay reached me from my old home at Swansea—3

I shall take the greatest pleasure in endeavouring to execute your commission; &, should I be able to manage it, I shall send an instalment coming into flower by rail or private hand as well.4

With many warm thanks | believe me | yours very sincerely | J Traherne Moggridge.

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. T. Moggridge, 13 October [1865].
2
‘Climbing plants’ (see letter to J. T. Moggridge, 13 October [1865] and n. 8).
3
CD probably sent copies of his papers ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’ and ‘Two forms in species of Linum’ to The Willows, Swansea, the address Moggridge had written from in the summer of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. T. Moggridge, 19 July [1864]). Moggridge’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’ (see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix III).
4
CD had asked Moggridge to send him live specimens of Ophrys arachnites (a synonym of Ophrys fuciflora, the late spider-orchid); see letter to J. T. Moggridge, 13 October [1865]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4915,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4915