From Edward Cresy 6 June 1867
Metropolitan Board of Works | Spring Gardens
6 June 67—
My dear Sir,
Forgive my having so long omitted to return Dr Hooker’s very interesting paper—1 I meant & ought to have given it your daughter when she was with us—but having been disappointed in not seeing her again as I expected before she left I took it up to town & buried it among some of my other papers—2 I hope you have not been inconvenienced by my inadvertence—
I was greatly rejoiced to hear from your daughter’s report to my wife that you were better & able to work again— I sincerely hope you will keep now steadily improving & that you won’t suffer from a plethora of proofs.3
When George comes “down” pray ask him to come & see me before he goes “up” again & I understood he meant staying to work the latter part of the long.4
Yours very truly | E Cresy
C Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Williamson, M. 1984. Sir Joseph Hooker’s lecture on insular floras. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 22: 55–77.
Summary
Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5564
- From
- Edward Cresy, Jr
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Metropolitan Board of Works
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 248
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5564,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5564.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15