To J. D. Hooker [23 March 1847]1
Down Farnborough | Kent
Tuesday
My dear Hooker
I propose going up to London on Thursday & coming to you at Kew on Friday sometime between 10 & 12 oclock; but my movements, you know, are always doubtful owing to my stomach & rather more than usually so just at present. But I much wish to be in London this week.
Many thanks for your proposal of our all going together on Saturday to the Marquis’es, but it would not, I fear, suit the calibre of my abominable stomach, though it would have been very pleasant.2
I presume of course that you have left Grt. Ryder St,3 so I direct this to Kew. But if you shd have been detained in Town you can let me know by a note to 7. Park St. & we could have our talk over my sketch after breakfast at Park St.— — I am very curious to hear about your grand Indian scheme.—4
Ever yours | C. Darwin
If I don’t appear on Friday, before 12 oclock you will understand the reason; & I hope leaving my appearance open, can cause you no inconvenience.—
Footnotes
Summary
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1074
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 83
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1074,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1074.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4