To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870]
Down
2d
My dear Hooker
I have been glad to see Watson’s letter. I must study your manner of arrangement of vars. & subspecies &c.—1
No wonder you are proud; I suppose the man is a very good judge & he is surely very clever, & considering his temper & delight in finding fault, I shd. think his note was the greatest complement ever paid to any human being!!2
Yours affect | C. Darwin
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. 1870. The student’s flora of the British Islands. London: Macmillan.
Summary
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7214
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 174
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7214,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7214.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
