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To Casimir de Candolle   1 August [1866]1

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

Aug 1.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kind present of your Mem. on the “Pipéracées”.2 I am sorry to say that I have not sufficient knowledge of botany fully to understand all the points which you discuss, but I can see that some of them are extremely interesting.

I should be much obliged if you wd give my sincere thanks to your father for the extremely kind letter which he wrote me when in London;3 I should have written to him at once had I known his address. It caused me sincere regret that the state of my health prevented me attending the Congress & having the great pleasure & honour of conversing with your father.4

With my best thanks pray believe me my dear Sir | yours very faithfully. | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 3 June 1866.
2
The reference is to Casimir de Candolle’s paper on the pepper family (A. C. P. de Candolle 1866).
4
Alphonse de Candolle was president of the International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress, held in London from 22 to 31 May 1866 (International Horticultural Exhibition 1866).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5169,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5169