From J. D. Hooker 19 June 1863
[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]
June 19/63.
Dr. Darwin,
did you not ask me some weeks back about a letter from Haast to you—1 I have just heard from him that some of his letters were lost before leaving N.Z.—& he sends me a copy of his former letter to me—& it encloses one for you, which I forwarded 2 days ago to Down.2 I hope that it contains what you want— He has sent me a most interesting newspaper journal of his travels across the plains;3 & Hector has sent by same mail, a more interesting but less successful account—4 I will send both to you when my Father5 (in Norfolk) returns them—together with Hector’s letter.
How are you all?— we are all well—& settled at Kew for a long spell— though I think I shall steal a Sunday for Down ere long, & see you with my own eyes.
I forwarded to you today from Linn. Soc. a curious pamphlet about sneezing6
Ev yr aff | Jos D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
Haast, Heinrich Ferdinand von. 1948. The life and times of Sir Julius von Haast, explorer, geologist, museum builder. Wellington, New Zealand: privately published.
Haliburton, Robert Grant. 1863. New materials for the history of man, derived from a comparison of the customs and superstitions of nations. Halifax, Nova Scotia: n.p.
Summary
Has heard from Julius von Haast that some of his letters were lost before leaving New Zealand. Haast’s enclosure for CD has been forwarded.
Haast and James Hector have both sent accounts of their travels in New Zealand.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4216
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 151
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4216,” accessed on 29 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4216.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11