To W. C. Tait   18 April [1869]1

Down. | Beckenham | Kent.

Ap. 18th.

Dear Sir

I am not very well owing to a fall from my horse & so write a line merely to thank you for your very obliging letter of April 13th.2 I hear the plants are going on very well, but I have not been able to go for a week to the greenhouse.

I have this day ordered my Orchis Book to be sent to Messrs. Rossari & will send there my paper on Climbing Plants.3 I feel sure that there will be no occasion to trouble you for any more of the Drossophyllum.

Whenever I go to London I will inquire of the Secretary of the Zoolog. Soc. whether they wish for any quadrupeds or birds from Portugal.4

With many thanks for all your kindness, believe me, | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. C. Tait, 13 April 1869.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 for a week] interl in CD’s hand
2.1 Book] interl in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6705,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6705