To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   14 April [1875]1

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

Ap. 14

Dear Mr Dyer

I am very much obliged for your present of Sachs.2 I am particularly glad to have a copy, for all that I have read of the book has made me a most ardent admirer of it

Pray believe me to be | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

The year is established by the reference to Sachs 1875a (see n. 2, below).
Thiselton-Dyer had assisted in the translation of Julius Sachs’s Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological (Sachs 1875a). See also letter from Moritz Traube, 2 March 1875 and n. 4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9930,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9930