To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1866]
My dear Hooker.—
Many thanks for Asa Gray, as I always like to read him.1 I was very uncomfortable for two days & all the world looked dismal to me, but everything looks brighter again now.—2 I knew that you would not care a bit about my omission,3 but I was much vexed at my own stupidity & strange forgetfulness; it seemed to me on that day like softening of the Brain! & I could have improved my own work by considering all your excellent remarks.4 Well it is too late— Cordial thanks & farewell— Ask Oliver to do a little favour for me.5
C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for Asa Gray’s letter, enclosed.
Knew JDH would not care about omissions but was vexed at his own forgetfulness.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5112
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 291
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5112,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5112.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14