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Darwin Correspondence Project

From J. D. Hooker   7 October 1879

Royal Gardens Kew

Oct 7/79

Dear Darwin

Please get me good specimens of enclosed from Miss Wedgwood Garden1   I want to draw it, & also roots (if perennial:)

In haste | Yrs | J D Hooker

Saracenia & Darlingtonia do not care for “light & sweetness” hitherto2

Footnotes

Emma Darwin’s sister, Elizabeth Wedgwood, lived in Down. The enclosure has not been found.
Sarracenia (trumpet pitcher-plants) and Darlingtonia californica (the California pitcher-plant; Darlingtonia is a monospecific genus) are insectivorous plants. Hooker had evidently found that they were not heliotropic (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 October 1879 and n. 4). ‘Light & sweetness’: an ironic reference to the idiom ‘sweetness and light’, popularised by Matthew Arnold’s Culture and anarchy (Arnold 1869).

Bibliography

Arnold, Matthew. 1869. Culture and anarchy: an essay in political and social criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co.

Summary

JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12251
From
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 104: 133
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12251,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12251.xml

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