To M. T. Masters   31 August [1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Aug. 31st

My dear Sir

I send a little article by this post, if you think it worth inserting in G. Chronicle.—2 If not, throw it into the fire. Should you print it, perhaps it wd. be well to send me a proof, as my hand-writing is so bad.—

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between May 1871 and January 1872.
2
CD sent an article about fertilisation in Leschenaultia (a synonym of Lechenaultia; see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 9 September 1871], which can now be dated [31 August 1871]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7919F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7919F