To J. D. Hooker [14 March 1847]
Down Farnborough | Kent
Sunday
My dear Hooker
I trust you got the C. Verd pamphlet:1 it is a fine chance your getting anyone to collect there.2 I did not write at the time as I was unwell: I lost all last week by unwellness & the fortnight before at Shrewsbury & here is more than three weeks gone & nothing to show for it.— I have studied your sheet of notes on my species-sketch3 with uncommon interest; they are highly suggestive; I shall bring them with me, when I come to Kew, as I want to talk over some points & ask a question or two. You have in truth done me a great service & kindness.— My object in writing now is to ask you to send me a line by return of Post, to tell me, whether you are likely to be at Kew on the 25th or 26th instant, for in that case I would come down for a couple of hours talk. I want to settle my own plans, & this point wd. settle them; I have thoughts of going to Ld Northamptons soiree4 on the 27th, as I have never been at one.
Ever Yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Geikie, Archibald. 1917. Annals of the Royal Society Club: the record of a London dining-club in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. London: Macmillan.
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1071
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 82
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1071,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1071.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4