To W. E. Darwin   1 July [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 1st

My dear William

I have just heard, by the enclosed, about Utricularia.—2 Could you visit Winchester for me pretty soon & take a tin box or cannister & send me some plants with floating leaves (& some submerged leaves) pretty soon.—3

I want them much.

In Haste— Mama has been swearing at me for doing too much. | Yours affec | C. Darwin

If they have roots send them.—

Let me know by card before hand, that I may have all prepared for them.4

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22; republished in this volume, Supplement).
2
The enclosure has not been found. CD discussed Utricularia (bladderwort) in Insectivorous plants, published in 1875.
3
Winchester is about thirteen miles from Southampton, where William lived.
4
William’s reply has not been found, but he did not find any Utricularia in Winchester (see this volume, Supplement, letter to John Ralfs, 8 July 1874).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9525F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9525F