To J. D. Hooker [18 October 1846]1
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Sunday
My dear Hooker
I shd very much enjoy a walk with you, as proposed, at Kew, but the infamous weather & more especially my utter ignorance how long it will take the artist to do Mr. Arthrobalanus, render it impossible to fix with certainty. I go to London tomorrow & I wd propose to come about 1 oclock & lunch with you if you will give me some at West Park,2 & afterwards have a walk in the Garden.— Will you send me a line to “7 Park St Grosvenor Square”,3 telling me honestly whether this will be perfectly convenient to you & whether you will allow me to take my chance of coming, so that if I do not come by 2. you will know that I have been prevented.
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Many thanks for your note about the Omnibuses.
Footnotes
Summary
Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1015
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 69
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1015,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1015.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3