To J. D. Hooker 10 [October 1853]
Down Bromley Kent
Monday 10th—
My dear Hooker
I sent your M.S.1 & the books you lent me (with a letter2) off this morning at 8 A.M. per Coach with strict injunctions to book it immediately (carr. paid) per Deliv. Coy. & I trust you will thus receive it before this note.
Very many thanks for the loan of the Books.—
Tell Mrs. Hooker, that I am becoming quite an abandoned novel-reader & have just begun Ruth3 which is quite charming.
Most truly yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The botany of the Antarctic voyage of HM discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. London: Lovell Reeve.
Summary
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1535
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1535,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1535.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
