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From T. H. Farrer   3 May 1873

3, Gloucester Terrace, | Regent’s Park.

3 May/73

My dear Mr Darwin

Many thanks for the name of the German book.1 Now that I shall have another pair of shoulders on which to rest some of my burdens,2 I should much like, if strength & eyesight last, to escape sometimes to flowers— We shall see— At any rate I will get the book—

What a noble letter was that of Huxleys— I should like to have seen yours to him3

Sincerely yours | T H Farrer

1
CD had recommended Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (H. Müller 1873), on the fertilisation of flowers by means of insects (see letter to T. H. Farrer, 28 April 1873).
2
Farrer probably refers to his marriage to Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood on 30 May 1873 (see B. Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980, p. 303).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8896,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8896