From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868]1
Norwich
Thursday Mg
Dear old Darwin
It is all well over, though I broke down in what I least expected—voice— the place was atrocious to speak in, & the desk so badly placed, that I could with difficulty read—so about the middle I got husky but recovered towards the end & am said to have done the agony bits & the poetry very well—2 I modified 2 or 3 things, left out the allusions to Gray’s being superseded. & something else.3
All is going off well— Huxley spoke nicely after it of our seafaring life, & Tyndall warmly of you & I being types of “unconscious merit”!!!!4
Fanny is here, & wonderfully well & strong, we were up till 2 this morning correcting the address.— the Journalists worried an imperfect copy out of me at the last moment—with several hideous blunders5
I will send copy as soon as possible.6
With Wife’s love to all | Ever yours | J D Hooker
CD annotations7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1868. Address of the president. Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Norwich, pp. lviii–lxxv.
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
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6326
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Norwich
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 227–8
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6326,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6326.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16