From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876
Heathfield
July 4/76
We return to Kew today
Dear Darwin
You are good to offer to send a few lines to Lady Jardine— it will gratify her & me very much indeed; she is at her fathers, Pendock Rectory Tewksbury.1
Mrs Lyell who knows her better than any one & my sister in law Mrs Barnard write as kindly & speak as highly of her as is possible.2 We shall marry at end of August & go to Glasgow Association, taking Harriet with us.3
I should have congratulated you on Franks investigation of Dipsacus; I hear that he has seen Dyer about it—,4 I hope the latter will not discourage him as he is a sad croak. though a thoroughly good fellow.
I am pressed for a new Edition of Students Flora, & of Primer, of which upwards of 16000 are off— the Teachers all like the latter.5 If by any chance Frank has notes & errors on anything in either I hope he will send them to me.
Harriet & I have been two days with the Claud Hamiltons. They seem remarkably nice kind people quite unaffected & genuine. Tyndall is in the 7th. Heaven amongst them.6
Pray thank Mrs Darwin warmly for her letter.7 I feel my responsibility so deeply that such letters are most comforting.
Ever yrs aff | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10556
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Heathfield Sussex
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 59
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10556,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10556.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24