To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 March 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Mar 21 1874
My dear Dr Sanderson
I send registered by this post my M.S. on the habits of Dionæa.1 If you have patience to read it, you will perhaps find something useful for your lecture, as some parts seem to me curious.2 I have not attended to style, only to intelligibility, but I have endeavoured to my utmost to be accurate.
Please sometime to return the M.S., as it will serve to be hereafter licked into shape. You must understand that my observations were intended only as complementary to those on Drosera.3
If I were in your place, I shd get my wife to read the M.S aloud to me, but if Mrs Sanderson4 hears of this hint, she will say that I am an unfeeling wretch.
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. My son Frank wd be delighted to attend as your assistant at your Lecture, if this wd be of any use to you.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends his MS on Dionaea and hopes it may be useful for JSBS’s lecture ["On the mechanism of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 7 (1874): 332–5].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9368
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-16)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9368,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9368.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
