From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Kew
June 18/67.
Dear Darwin
I shall be in town on Thursday, & will try & hit your lunch time if your Brother will kindly allow me.1
I do hope you may be able to run down here too. I am turning into a Landscape Gardener, getting up cheerfully at 6 & before it, & sleeping like a Plough-boy in consequence, or rather in spite of it.—2 I have been reading Tate’s? Review in N. British,3 & wish I was not so confoundedly lazy & I would answer it. Also I have read “Mount Sorel” & Ben D’Izzy’s political life of Lord G. Bentinck4—& this is the sum of my acquisitions in Science polite Literature & Politics for the past 9 months— it is a blessed retrospect—for which I am sufficiently thankful:— bad science—bad novel,—bad political Economy— what more can a man want, that does not feed on bread alone.
Mrs Hooker will “beat you up” or “run you down” these terms being synonymous, if you will let her one day this week5
Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1858. Lord George Bentinck: a political biography. New edition. London: G. Routledge.
[Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming.] 1867. The origin of species. North British Review 46: 277–318.
[Marsh-Caldwell, Anne.] 1845. Mount Sorel; or the heiress of the De Veres. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall.
Wellesley index: The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966–89.
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5570
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 167–8
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5570,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5570.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15