To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1867]
Down
July 29
My dear Hooker
It rejoices my heart that you will come here next Saturday, & I hope nothing will prevent you, but remember should any thing occur you must not put yourself out to give me pleasure great though that will be.1
If you have Willy or Charley with you we should be most glad to see them.2
yours affectionately | C. Darwin
If you can lay your hand on Adam Bede bring it back.—3
Footnotes
CD refers to Hooker’s sons Charles Paget and William Henslow Hooker.
CD refers to Eliot 1859.
Bibliography
Eliot, George. 1859. Adam Bede. 3 vols. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
Summary
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5587
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 143
- Physical description
- LS(A) 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5587,” accessed on 1 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5587.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
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