To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861]
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
17th
My dear Hooker
Hearty thanks for your invitation for Willy, who would have deeply enjoyed it & longs for the wonderful good it would have done him;1 but his time draws near to go to Southampton; if that ever takes place, for there are 2 or 3 sudden hitches in our negotiations.—2
I was really ashamed to bother you about Catasetum; I have now written to Parker & Williams for chance.3
I shd be very glad of a Catleya or Epidendron,4 & specially (from what A. Gray writes) for an Arethusa or one of that section.—5 Have you Mormodes; [HAND] with some buds that would complete my desiderata for comparison.6 If the racemes were cut off & packed in tin-cannister with little slightly damp moss, they might be sent by Post, & I would pay postage: possibly Arethusa might come in pot, as that seems most important for me.— We shall be nearly 5 weeks more I really think that my paper will be a curious one, though not of much importance.—
I am sorry to hear that Henslow did not leave more property: in old days he spoke to me, as if he expected in after days to be well off.—7
What a bad job this loss of your Examination fees, now that your family increasing in expence, & expences will increase.—8
I hope you will not work too hard, for you have very much on your shoulders.— Farewell. Did you read Asa Gray’s letter to me.—9 The P.S. (need not be returned) is worth reading—
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Etty is going on well & continues to absorb Cod-liver oil— we think this best advice of yours of any we have had.10
Footnotes
Bibliography
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3210
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 106
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3210,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3210.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9