To William Jackson Hooker 17 February [1851]
Down Farnborough Kent
Feb. 17th.
My dear Sir William
You will no doubt like to see the enclosed letter of your son,1 which, whenever perfectly convenient you can return to me.— I am heartily glad to think that he will pretty soon now be at home again.2 What work he will have on his hands; it is enough to make one fear to think of it. Everyone will, I suppose, be quite astonished to hear of the Oaks & Birches of the Tropics;3 it strikes me as almost disheartening; almost as bad as if some geologist were to find Tertiary shells in a Silurian formation.— Falconer’s conduct is enough to make one swear at him.4
Pray believe me with my respects & kind remembrances to Lady Hooker: | Your’s very sincerely | 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–.
Summary
Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.
Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1390
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Jackson Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1390,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1390.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5