From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Down Bromley | Kent
Mar 17
Dear Dr Hooker
Charles begs me to say that if the plants are not already sent off to ask you to add Combretum argenteum: as having C. purpureum the foolish vice of modesty made him decline it.1 As soon as he can he wants much to write to you. He wishes you to thank Prof. Oliver from him for his most valuable letter.2
He has had a better week with much less sickness owing to a slight tightness of the chest & exema. The exema alas is gone & was hardly decided enough to affect him much but I am glad it is lurking about him.3
I am 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 plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4429
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 224
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4429,” accessed on 19 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4429.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
