To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]1
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Tuesday Night
My dear Hooker
I have just read your letter, & see you want papers at once. I am quite prostrated & can do nothing but I send Wallace2 & my abstract of abstract of letter to Asa Gray,3 which gives most imperfectly only the means of change & does not touch on reasons for believing species do change. I daresay all is too late. I hardly care about it.—
But you are too generous to sacrifice so much time & kindness.— It is most generous, most kind. I send sketch of 1844 solely that you may see by your own handwriting that you did read it.—4
I really cannot bear to look at it.— Do not waste much time. It is miserable in me to care at all about priority.—
The table of contents will show what it is.5 I would make a similar, but shorter & more accurate sketch for Linnean Journal.— I will do anything
God Bless you my dear kind friend. I can write no more. I send this by servant to Kew.
Yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Foundations: The foundations of the Origin of Species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Edited by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1909. [Reprint edition. New York: Kraus Reprint Co. 1969. Also reprinted in De Beer ed. 1958.]
Summary
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2298
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 240
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2298,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2298.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7