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From J. S. Henslow   [c. 14 April 1839]

My dear Darwin,

I have just got back from Milton I find this letter wh. concerns your queres.—1 Ld. F’s2 gardener declares that he does not believe in Hybrid Ferns— He raises 100s & sees 1000’s of seedlings & never met with any thing of the sort—3

Mrs H. is at Ely—

Kind regards to Mrs Darwin. Yrs ever sincerely J. S Henslow

1
Letter from William Herbert to J. S. Henslow, 5 April 1839. Henslow wrote the above note at the bottom of Herbert’s letter.
2
Probably Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 3d Earl Fitzwilliam, on whose estates was Milton Park near Peterborough (Complete Peerage).
3
CD’s notebooks contain seven references to hybridity of ferns (Notebook B: 230, 235; C: 52; D: 157, 162; E: 90; M: 156).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-505,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-505