To Asa Gray 25 December 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dec 25. 74
My dear Gray
Many thanks for your kind note of Dec 11.1 I received & read with very great interest your article on the longevity or duration of varieties. This is a subject on which I have long felt interest; tho’ I never before, as far as I can remember connected it with inter-crossing.2 I think you have put the case very well & clearly. I heard lately from Mrs Treat about Utricularia; but she does not go very deep into any subject, & I have very great difficulty in believing some of her statements.3 I have got the whole of my book in M.S, but I do not know how long it will take me to get it ready for the printers; I hope it will be out late in the spring & I will of course send you a copy.4
The death of Mrs Hooker has indeed been a terrible blow. Poor Hooker came here directly after the funeral & bore up manfully.5 I know I would much sooner die than suffer such a loss
My dear Gray | Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Allan, Mea. 1967. The Hookers of Kew, 1785–1911. London: Michael Joseph.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9779
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Asa Gray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9779,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9779.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
