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To [Leonard Horner?]   25 June 1843

Down House | Orpington Kent1

June 25th 1843

My dear Hooker2

Yours to hand thanks for the information received I have sent you the notes on Volcanic Islands for your inspection when you have read them kindly return them to me as I must rewrite and correct them I have been very busy since I came here it seems to suit me here and I am now determined to show the people the gift of mankind in regards penmanship of a unusual kind which they seldom see

Believe me | Yours Faithfully | C Darwin

Footnotes

1
An address CD never used. This letter is either a copy made by an inaccurate copyist who interpolated details or a forged CD letter.
2
If this is a copy of a genuine CD letter then ‘Hooker’ must be a mistranscription. CD would not have addressed William Jackson Hooker so familiarly, and his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, had not yet returned from the Erebus voyage. The addressee was possibly Leonard Horner, who would have been interested in the notes on volcanic islands. CD worked on Volcanic islands during 1843 (see ‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Volcanic islands: Geological observations on the volcanic islands, visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle, together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1844.

Summary

Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.

[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-677
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Leonard Horner
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31)
Physical description
(or forgery) 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 677,” accessed on 7 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-677.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2

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