To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]1
Down
Monday
My dear Hooker
I am a little better, though sickness continues. I can read a little & am very curious to read Caspary’s speech or paper at the recent Amsterdam Hort. Congress,2 on the union of buds in Cytisus,3 if published in German or French.—4
Have you a copy? How was Gard:– Chronicle able to report?5 Can you lend it me? & send by Post?
yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bean, William Jackson. 1970–88. Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles. 8th edition, fully revised by D. L. Clarke and George Taylor. 4 vols. and supplement. London: John Murray.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Olby, Robert. 1985. Origins of Mendelism. 2d edition. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4825
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 267
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4825,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4825.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13