To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Sept. 28th
My dear Hooker
I suppose you will soon be home: at first you will be very busy, but after a little time, I shd. glad, if you could by giving orders to any assistant send me some dozen or so capsules with some stalk & leaves (ripe or nearly ripe) of any water plants, named in pencil, to try floating powers in sea-water.2
I have been trying in vain to get Callitriche verna & Montia fontana, which wd. be very good being such wide rangers.
If you can send me any, please send them any day, addressed diag C. Darwin
care of Mr Acton
Post Office
Bromley
Kent
(Per Coach.)ramme
In the course of some weeks, you unfortunate wretch, you will have my M.S. on one point of Geograph. Distribution—3 I will, however, never ask such a favour again; but in regard to this one piece of M.S. it is of infinite importance to me for you to see it; for never in my life have I felt such difficulty what to do, & I heartily wish I could slur the whole subject over.—
I hope your tour has answered in every way. I wrote to you at Vienna.4 With kindest remembrances to Mrs Hooker, Ever yours | C. Darwin
We shall meet at Phil. Club on 16th.—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Will send MS on one point of geographical distribution. It is "of infinite importance" that JDH see it, for CD has never felt such difficulty in deciding what to do.
Wants capsules of aquatic plants, to float in sea-water.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1963
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 177
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1963,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1963.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6