To Hyacinth Hooker [18 November 1877]1
Cambridge
Sunday
My dear Lady Hooker
I must thank you for so kindly remembering my weakness for bananas, & they are such splendid ones that even a L.L.D. may be excused for enjoying them.2 There was a tremendous crowd & hooting & cheering at the Senate House yesterday, with a suspended monkey &c; but I believe the cheering was more than the groaning which I thought was all against me, but was mostly against an unpopular proctor.3
Everyone has been most cordial & I have been honoured far above my deserts.—
Pray thank Hooker for his little note, received just before we started
I do so hope that you will be able to come to us before very long.4 I can well believe that Hooker must have an awful accumulation of work, & it is fortunate that he has a hundred-horse power of working.—
Pray believe me | Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.
Thanks for bananas.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11238
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hyacinth Symonds/Hyacinth Jardine/Hyacinth Hooker
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11238,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11238.xml
