To J. D. Hooker [14 July 1844]
Down near Bromley | Kent
Sunday
My dear Hooker
I propose to give myself the pleasure of paying you a morning visit on Thursday. I have to be in town on Wednesday & will come in my light tax cart,1 about ten oclock in the morning & at midday return across country home. As I shall be in town, I will certainly come without the weather be atrociously bad.— Wd you send me one single line to say whether Thursday would suit you, if not I wd come on Friday, but Thursday wd suit me best.—
Wd you send your answer as soon as you receive this—then perhaps I shall receive it on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Darwin is very much obliged for your kind invitation, but is afraid of the length of the drive.—2
Believe me Ever yours | C. Darwin
P.S. | I ought to apologise for coming in the morning & thus causing you to lose your best hours, but my visit will not be very long.—
N.B. As my health is always extremely uncertain, you must not be surprised if I fail: if I am not with you before eleven, you will understand that my health is to blame.—
Summary
Health and weather permitting, CD proposes to visit Kew.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-763
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 763,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-763.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3