My dear Hooker

I am delighted that you & M^rs. Hooker will be here soon.— M^rs H. speaks of Saturday the 8^th, but it is the 7^th & we shall then expect you.—²

I am now at work on Drosera, & my object is to ask whether you could lend me for about a week D. capensis or any other species, except. D. Spathulata & filimornis & the English species.—³

When I was at Kew, I saw D. capensis & you then thought, there w^d be no objection to lending it to me.—⁴ In case you can, I would send my gardener Lettington,⁵ (who w^d like to see the Garden) to Kew, as the plant w^d. thus come safest, but it w^d. require packing up with much care, so that no particles sh^d fall on the leaves.—

Yours affect^y | C. Darwin