To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]1
2. Hesketh Crescent | Torquay
Saturday
My dear Hooker.
Your note offering Catasetum followed me here:2 hearty thanks, but I have written to Veitch,3 (whose name you mentioned with Parker & Williams4) for 4 kinds; if he fails, I will let you know as I wish intensely to see Catasetum. I also much wish to see one of the Arethuseæ.5 I hope all your sick friends & Father are going on well.6 We slept at Reading & got here on Tuesday night & are settled in capital house with pretty view. Etty stood the Journey well; but about Exeter we were all in a frightful & laughable state of prostration & Port Wine alone saved our lives.
I hope your work will soon be lighter: but till it is I will not bother you with writing.— Thanks for Journal of Hort. returned.7 I find this journal has far more contributors who will observe & report than Gardeners Chronicle. I get capital information in almost every number.—8
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3200
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Torquay
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 104
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3200,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3200.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9