From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Down Bromley | Kent.
Mar 12
Dear Dr Hooker
C. begs me to tell you that he will be very glad to have those marked on the list with a red pencil & those mentioned in your note.1 He wd be very glad to have them marked as to whether they are stove plants or greenhouse plants.2 The address as usual To the care of the Down postman.
Ch. hopes to be able to write to you soon. He is very much obliged for your last letter.3 He has had a bad fortnight but it is ending in a bad cold which never much signifies with him.4
Poor little Charley. I thought that troublesome complaint was only infectious through a hat or bonnet.5
With my love to Mrs Hooker yours | very sincerely | E. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4426
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 223
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4426,” accessed on 19 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4426.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
