To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1858]
King’s Head Hotel | Sandown | Isle of Wight
Sunday
My dear Hooker
Will you read & tear up Mrs Carmichael’s note,1 & if you can recommend a simple book on Tropical American Botany, will you do so; but I suppose certainly there is none such. Wd. Lindleys Vegetable Kingdom do?2 Will you write six words & put it in enclosed envelope & post it.—
We are settled here for 10 days & then go on for another fortnight to Norfolk House Shanklin, about 3 miles from this place & much prettier I hope to be home about the 3d of next month.
We are too old & feeble a party for anywhere but home,—at least that is my private opinion; but I hope it may do Etty & Lenny good.
Half a dozen words on scrap of paper would suffice for answer.
My dear Hooker | Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lindley, John. 1846b. The vegetable kingdom. London: the author.
Summary
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2310
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Sandown
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 243
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2310,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2310.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7