To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 3d Sunday morning
My dear Hooker
I have not heard from Mr. Mivart & I do not think that there is now a chance of hearing.—2
I shall be anxious to hear what you finally determine to do, & I will not write till I hear from you.— If you consult Allman, perhaps he will not take so strong a view as you do, influenced, I do not doubt by your kind feelings towards me.3 Whatever anyone else may think, I am convinced that the man is a false hypocrite to the core. All this affair must have cost you much time & what is even worse much annoyment.— As I said in a former note, when I told Huxley & you about it, it never for an instant occurred to me that you would take up the affair in so earnest & sympathetic a manner.4 If I had thought so, I ought, perhaps, to have refrained from mentioning it, but I doubt whether I shd. have had sufficient self-restraint.
I hope before very long that you may hear about your Assist. Secy.—5
Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
I have just been reading in Nature the first part of your Royal Address, & I have been particularly glad to learn something about the R. Socy.: it was all new to me.—6
If you can remember, thank Oliver for note received to day about Warming; but I have the pamphlet to which he refers. He sent it to me.—7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Warming, Eugenius. 1874. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Lentibulariaceæ. I. Genlisea ornata Mart. (Hertil tab. V og VI). II. Spiringen af Fröene hos Utricularia vulgaris. (Hertil tab. VII). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn (1874, Nr. 3–7): 33–58. (Resumé in French, pp. 8–15.)
Summary
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9798
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 363–4
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9798,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9798.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23