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To John Price   28 July [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [Abinger Hall, Surrey.]

July 28th

My dear Price.

I have just received your note, & you will have received mine on U. minor.2 Will you be so kind as to keep alive for a month in pond water some plants, or, send some to Down, but in this latter case, please mark in plain writing outside “to be placed immediately in water in greenhouse”.— Before I left home I gave instructions to my gardener.—3 I certainly shd be very glad to look with high power at some points of structure.

No plant that ever I attacked, has puzzled & bothered & interested me more than U. vulgaris.4

With many thanks, | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Price, 27 [July 1874].
2
See letter from John Price, [27 July 1874], and letter to John Price, 27 [July 1874]. Utricularia minor is lesser bladderwort.
3
CD was away from home from 25 July until 24 August 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD’s gardener was Henry Lettington.
4
CD and Francis had been studying Utricularia vulgaris (common bladderwort; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 July 1874).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 for a month] interl
1.3 placed] above del ‘planted’
1.5 gardener] final ‘r’ over illeg

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9570,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9570