To Hyacinth Hooker 6 January [1882]1
Down Beckenham
Jan— 6th
Dear Lady Hooker
I have much pleasure in sending 5—5—0 in aid of your subscription for poor Mrs Fitch..— If you want more, I beg you to apply to me again; for it would require a great many letters before I could “treat you as a troublesome person”.2
Believe me dear Lady Hooker | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hyacinth Hooker, 7 January 1882.
Hannah Fitch was the wife of Walter Hood Fitch, a botanical artist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who illustrated several of Joseph Dalton Hooker’s works. A cheque for £5 5s. to ‘L Hooker to Mrs Fitch Charity’ is recorded in CD’s Account books–cash account (Down House MS) on 6 January 1882. No previous letter from Hyacinth Hooker on this matter has been found.
Summary
Sends subscription for Hannah Fitch.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13600G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hyacinth Symonds/Hyacinth Jardine/Hyacinth Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 313)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13600G,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13600G.xml
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