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From Francis Galton   14 April 1875

42 Rutland Gate London

April 14/75

My dear Darwin

George1 told me that you wd. very kindly have some sweet peas planted for me, & save me the produce. I send them in a separate envelope with marked bags to put the produce in, and full instructions which I think your gardener will easily understand. I am most anxious to repair the disaster of last year by which I lost the produce of all my sweet peas at Kew.2

With very many thanks | Yours very faithfully | Francis Galton

2
Seven of Galton’s friends, throughout the United Kingdom, weighed and measured sweet-pea seeds over successive generations; Galton reported the experiments in his Natural inheritance (Galton 1889, pp. 79–82, 225–6). The gardener who normally assisted CD in botanical experiments was Henry Lettington.

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