From Hyacinth Hooker 7 January 1882
Royal Gardens, | Kew.
Jan. 7/82
Dear Mr. Darwin
You are most kind & I am most delighted to be able to send poor Mrs. Fitch such a nice little purse of money.
Thank you many times too for saying I may apply to you again should it be necessary. I hope there may be no occasion for me to do so; but still I fear that as Fitch grows older & more blind he will grow poorer.1 How he & his family manage to get on is a mystery to us; for in his better days he spent all his gains & has nothing laid by to fall back upon.
He has been foolish & improvident no doubt; but he has done a great deal of good work in his day & has been a hard worker too.
Yours gratefully & sincerely | Hyacinth Hooker.
My love, please, to your ladies.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks CD for financial assistance for Mr Fitch and his wife.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13602
- From
- Hyacinth Symonds/Hyacinth Jardine/Hyacinth Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 244–5
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13602,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13602.xml