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To [M. T. Masters?]   7 March 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

March 7. 75

My dear Sir

I do not know whether you are the Author of the Article on me in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, but suppose so.1 Whoever the Author may be, I am much pleased with & grateful for the honour conferred on me in it. I wish that I deserved half of what is said.

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
An editorial article on CD appeared in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 March 1875, pp. 308–9. Masters had been editor of the magazine since 1865. The article praised CD for his contribution to horticulture through his work on plant physiology, citing his research on variation, inheritance, reversion, bud variation, acclimatisation, carnivorous plants, climbing plants, and descent as the basis of rational classification.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9880,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9880