From J. D. Hooker [19 March 1866]1
Kew
Monday.
My dear Darwin
May I come to you on Saturday?2 My wife & I are going to hear Acis & Galatea at the C.P., with a Lady friend, who lives hard by, & with whom she returns to sleep.3 If you could meet me at Sydenham, with a trap of any kind, at about 5 PM I would go on to you. At some Hotel or the Sydenham station would perhaps be better than the palace itself, to meet the trap
Ever Yr affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
The date is established by the date of Hooker’s visit to Down, and by the date of the performance of Acis and Galatea (see nn. 2 and 3, below). In 1866, 19 March was the first Monday before 24 March.
Hooker visited Down from Saturday 24 March to Monday 26 March 1866 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
Hooker’s wife was Frances Harriet Hooker. George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea was performed on 24 March 1866 at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham (Athenæum, 17 March 1866, p. 349). The friend has not been identified.
Summary
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5077
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5077,” accessed on 12 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5077.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
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