To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]1
Down Bromley | Kent.
Sat.
My dear Hooker
I am very glad to have seen Huxley’s letter which is capital.2 As Etty is much interested in the controversy & I thought it cd not signify I have sent H’s letter to her,3 telling her to return it immediately to you. How witty it is!
I am pleased to hear that you are reading my climbing paper4 for I thought you wd not have time & it is awfully long. Of all men in the world Kingsley has written to me a note full of interest about it & especially about the Lathyrus.5 I suppose you do not know any one who from having attended to such subjects wd care for a separate copy.6
Remember you have Max Wichura’s book on Hybrids.7 Not that I want it back in any hurry. There was a capital resumé of it in the Reader some time ago.8 We have read your Indian novel & I liked it very much. We want to read a Hist of the Indian mutiny. Can you recommend one?9 I am extremely glad you are going an excursion with Mrs Hooker & we both very much hope it may do her good.10 I have had a very bad 6 weeks with much vomiting & fear that the ice will not do much for me.11
Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
E’ D’s12 love to Mrs Hooker & is very sorry to hear how unwell she continues
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–.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Prichard, Iltudus Thomas. 1864. How to manage it: a novel. 3 vols. London: R. Bentley.
Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich erläutert an den Bastarden der Weiden. Breslau: E. Morgenstern.
Wimmer, Christian Friedrich Heinrich. 1853. Wildwachsende Bastardpflanzen, hauptsächlich in Schlesien beobachtet. In Denkschrift zur Feier ihres fünfzigjährigen Bestehens herausgegeben von der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur. Breslau: Joseph Max & Komp.
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4862
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 271
- Physical description
- LS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4862,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4862.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13