To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1846]
[Down]
Sat. Morn.
My dear Hooker
No one of my children was ever so delighted with a new plaything as I am with the looks of my charming lens’. Many thanks for them.
I write now to propose, as you say you have nothing else to do in London, that I shall come down to Kew on Thursday or Friday.— If both days suited you equally well, you should leave the choice open to me, according as my stomach feels; otherwise I would come on either day fixed by Luncheon time.
If I do not hear from you, in note to Park St., I shall expect you on Friday at Park St. at 11.—
I find the microscope work really delightful, & I am this morning going to begin with a new animal & with my new lens’.—
Farewell— what a good thing is community of tastes, I feel as if I had known you for fifty years— adios | C. Darwin
Summary
Proposes to visit Kew.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1024
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 72
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1024,” accessed on 15 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1024.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3