My dear Lady Hooker

I must thank you for so kindly remembering my weakness for bananas, & they are such splendid ones that even a L.L.D. may be excused for enjoying them.² There was a tremendous crowd & hooting & cheering at the Senate House yesterday, with a suspended monkey &c; but I believe the cheering was more than the groaning which I thought was all against me, but was mostly against an unpopular proctor.³

Everyone has been most cordial & I have been honoured far above my deserts.—

Pray thank Hooker for his little note, received just before we started

I do so hope that you will be able to come to us before very long.⁴ I can well believe that Hooker must have an awful accumulation of work, & it is fortunate that he has a hundred-horse power of working.—

Pray believe me | Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin