To J. D. Hooker [28 March 1868]1
Saturday
My dear H.
I was baddish yesterday & Emma thinks I had better defer coming to Kew till Monday, for I am engaged to Lyells on Sunday morning.2 We go home on Wednesday so Monday or Tuesday is my last chance
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 March 1868]. The Saturday after 26 March 1868 was 28 March.
CD refers to Emma Darwin and Charles Lyell.
Summary
Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6062
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6062,” accessed on 31 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6062.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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