From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1878
Royal Gardens Kew
Jany 18/78.
Dear Darwin
I heard last night of your prodigious exertions at the Linnean & was about to write asking you to come here when your letter arrived.1 Do come whenever most convenient, any morning—Friday if you will. Why not have lunch, coming early, so as to walk in the Garden beforehand but all this just as you please.— bring every body with you or whatever suits you best.2
Ever yr affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
CD had attended the 17 January meeting of the Linnean Society of London, at which Francis Darwin’s paper ‘Experiments on the nutrition of Drosera rotundifolia’ (F. Darwin 1878a) was read. Hooker originally dated this letter 17 January, then changed it to 18 January.
CD visited Hooker at Kew on Tuesday 22 January (letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878).
Summary
Invites CD to Kew.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11323
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 101–2
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11323,” accessed on 7 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11323.xml
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