My dear Hooker

I thank you much for being willing to propose Frank; I had begun to doubt whether I had not been too impudent in asking such a veteran to propose him, & was a little vexed with myself.— I do not see how your proposing him can interfere in the least with the higher claims of anyone else.— If you have not thrown away the list of Frank’s papers please return them; & then I will fill up a certificate & send it you for signature & afterwards get other signatures.¹ But probably I shall not be able to do this for about 10 days, as on Tuesday morning we go to “6 Queen Anne St” until Saturday, whence for a few days to Leith Hill Place.² I fear that there is no chance of our seeing you in London.

Again thanking you warmly | My dear Hooker | Ever Yours | Ch. Darwin

I did not attend to or care about the Haughton controversy; it seemed chiefly about the range of a single or at most two species.—³

I should have hugely enjoyed talking over with you Wallace’s book.—⁴

Can you give me seeds of Commelyna cœlestis? I have applied to Thompson of Ipswich, & he has not any.—⁵