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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Maria Hooker   [17 December 1848]1

Down Farnborough Kent

Sunday

Dear Lady Hooker

I am extremely much obliged to your Ladyship for the enclosed very interesting letters, which shd. have been returned a day earlier, had I not been prevented returning home by unwellness in London.—

I am truly glad to hear so much better an account of Miss Hooker, to whom I beg my kind remembrances.—

Your son tells me he will send me some Zoolog. pamphlets from Hodgson through Sir William,2 will you ask him to be so kind as to send them, whenever convenient, directed to me to the Athenæum Club.—

With my sincere thanks for the pleasure I have received from knowing familiarly about your sons proceedings.

I remain Your Ladyships | Truly obliged | C. Darwin

Footnotes

Dated by the reference to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 October 1848, and the date of a visit to London. On 17 December, CD recorded in his Account Book (Down House MS) the expenses of a trip to London and also payment of a fee to Dr Henry Holland during his stay in the city. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, CD went to London on Wednesday, 13 December, where he was taken ill.

Summary

Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].

Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1209
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner/Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Sent from
Down
Source of text
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1209,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1209.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4

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