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Oct. 3^rd 1865

My dear Hooker

As you asked about the Reader I have thought that you w]oul]d like to see the enclosed letter¹ which please return sometime when you feel strong enough to read a no moderately long letter accompanied with beautiful drawings by Fritz Müller in Brazil [2] on certain climbing plants[.] I shall beg you to read it, for I am in utter perplexity whether it is worth communicating to Linn[ean]. Soc[iety]. The chief point of interest is, it describes a sub-division of which I saw no instances, namely branches being converted into tendrils, but there is of course no sort of hurry. I feel that I am not botanist enough [3]

to judge whether it is worth communicating.

Before very long let us hear how you go on.

Yours very affectionately | C. Darwin [signature]