To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1855]
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My dear Hooker
To prevent the possibility of your taking trouble in vain, I write to say I found Watsons Paper on Azores Plants1 in Lin: Socy. yesterday, & thanks & hearty thanks to your arrangement for me, I took under Sir William’s name 4 volumes home with me,—2
Adios | C. Darwin
N.B. If you want to enjoy perfect health as I do this morning eat Turtle soup on two successive days, & drink quantum suff: of Wines of all kinds.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1843. The geographical distribution of British plants. 3d edition. Pt 1 (no more published). London: Printed for the author.
Summary
Has used borrowing rights at Linnean Society Library arranged for him by JDH.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1702
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 138
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1702,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1702.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
