From J. D. Hooker to W. E. Darwin [13 June 1872]1
Royal Gardens Kew
Thursday
Dear Darwin
The bearer takes an address for your father to sign; please direct him to where he shall find your father.2
Ever yours | J D Hooker
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 June [1872]. The Thursday before 14 June 1872 was 13 June 1872.
CD signed a memorial supporting Hooker in a dispute over the administration of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; it was sent to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, on 20 June 1872 (letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872). CD and Emma Darwin stayed with William Erasmus Darwin at Bassett, Southampton, from 8 June to 20 June 1872 (Emma Darwin’s diary ((DAR 242)). See also letter from John Tyndall, 8 June [1872].
Summary
Asks WED to direct bearer of letter to CD, as he has an address [memorial from men of science to W. E. Gladstone] for him to sign.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8379
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 116–17
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8379,” accessed on 4 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8379.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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