From J. D. Hooker 12 April [1865]1
12th. April.
Dr Darwin
The Strelitzia & books never went till today.2
My Father is very unwell with Bronchitis & Influenza & we very uneasy about him, he being 79 3 Last week, after a hard mornings work in the Gardens, he went to the City in the afternoon, to see a nephew4 ill of Typhus. it was the first hot day & knocked him up.
Many thanks for your note.5 Bentham wrote on Planchon Thomson on subspecies & Greene of Cork on Linn. Trans.6 I shall be curious for your criticisms— I did the Darwinian thing in G. C.—(right for once— exceptions makes rules)7 I can think of nothing else nasty to say & so good bye
Ever Yrs affec | J D Hooker
I am egregiously delighted with your calm judgement on the “Origin”.8 Do you know I have reread some of my papers with the same result & never was wrong once in my opinion
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Summary
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4812
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4812,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4812.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13