From J. D. Hooker [15 April 1862]1
Dr. Darwin
Will it be convenient to Mrs Darwin to receive Willy & me from Thursday till Monday? if so we will find our way down that afternoon.2 I shall not want dinner, so do not arrange or disarrange for us.
Next week would suit us equally well.
Ever yours affec | Jos D Hooker
Kew Tuesday.
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship to the letter to H. W. Bates, 16 April [1862].
Hooker and his eldest son, William Henslow Hooker, had been invited to spend Easter at Down House (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 March [1862]); according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), they stayed at Down from Thursday 17 April to Monday 21 April 1862.
Summary
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3506
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 31
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3506,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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