To W. J. Hooker [c. February 1849]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Sunday
Dear Sir William Hooker
I am very much obliged to you for remembering the interest which I always feel in your son’s progress & for forwarding to me Hodgson’s letter, which I now return. I am delighted that everything looks so flourishing.
I am much obliged to your kindness in sending me the pamphlets.—2
Your son promised me a copy of his Galapagos Flora Paper.3 I am really anxious to possess a copy: can you let me have one & at anytime leave or send it to the Athenæum Club: I hope that I am not unreasonable in this request.
Pray be so good as to remember me very kindly to Lady & Miss Hooker & believe me with my best thanks | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1845a. An enumeration of the plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. [Read 4 March, 6 May, and 16 December 1845.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20 (1846–51): 163–233.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1846b. On the vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other tropical islands and of the continent of America. [Read 1 and 15 December 1846.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20 (1846–51): 235–62.
Summary
Thanks WJH for information on J. D. Hooker’s progress.
J. D. Hooker promised a copy of his Galapagos paper. Can WJH forward one to the Athenaeum?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1218
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Jackson Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–J 1849, 27: 155)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1218,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1218.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
