From Frances Harriet Hooker [26 January 1868]1
My dear Mr. Darwin—
I saw George’s name in such a very conspicuous position in the Times last evening,2 that I must write & congratulate you & Mrs. Darwin on his success— Cambridge traditions & prejudices still cling to me,3 sufficiently to make me feel how proud you must be—although I have just been reading “Essays on a liberal Education”, which have gone far to disgust me with all modern teaching!4 I can only hope they exaggerate matters—& that my boys at any rate may not be absolutely ignorant of everything but Latin & Greek, & know but little of those!— What is your son going to do now? become a Fellow of Trinity?—5
I hope you & Mrs. Darwin are pretty well— pray give my love to her & your daughters—6 Joseph is gone down to Sir Charles Bunbury’s for the Sunday.—7
Believe me | Yours affectly | F H Hooker
Kew W. | Sunday
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5853
- From
- Frances Harriet Henslow/Frances Harriet Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 195
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5853,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5853.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16