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[To Daniel Oliver, 1 April [1861]].

A.L.S. to an unnamed correspondent, Ap. 1, n.y., Down, Bromley, Kent, 1 1/2 pp. 8vo., 'I never dreamed that primroses did not abound with you…' he has now sent some by post, '…Thanks for information about Oxalis—Please keep memorandum what I owe you for Cypripedium…';

A.L.S. to Sir John Lubbock, the zoologist, "27th", n.y., Down, Bromley, Kent, 1 p. 8vo., making an appointment.

*** 'On May 15th, 1862, my little book on the Fertilisation of Orchids, which cost me ten months' work, was published' (see Autobiography). For Darwin's study of primroses and cowslips see Sir Gavin de Beer's 'Charles Darwin', 1963, p. 233.