From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dear Dr Hooker
I am writing instead of Hen1—just to tell you of the Barlaston people—2 Godfrey will be very sorry to miss you he is the flower of the flock I think & is gone on business to Petersburg3 Clement is a very jolly young man of 23 & I suppose he will not be returned from Germany where he is also on business. The 3rd is at Paris & is younger.4
Then there are 2 daughters & Godfrey’s little boy at home.5
Charles is much interested in your letter (he thought you were ironical about his hand writing but I am sure it was a bona fide compt)6
We have just received a blossom of Rhod Falconeri which has flowered in the open air at my brothers on Leith Hill Surrey.7
This day is a fortnight since he has had any sickness.8
With my love to Mrs Hooker9 yours very truly | E. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1999. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, traveller and plant collector. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1849. The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country. Edited by William Jackson Hooker. London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve.
Turrill, William Bertram. 1963. Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist, explorer, and administrator. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.
Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista.
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4473
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 232
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4473,” accessed on 12 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4473.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12