To J. D. Hooker 8 January [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan. 8th
My dear Hooker
There can be no doubt that the men whom you have consulted are excellent judges, & that it wd be very rash of you not to follow their advice.2 Do not say that you regret having told me of your wish & intentions; for I shall always think of your & Huxleys sympathy & aid with the deepest satisfaction.—3 As you are not to write I am all the more inclined to do so, but my wife & George think (like Huxley) that I had better not, & perhaps I shall succomb. Anyhow I will write a savage letter & that will do me some good, if I do not send it!
Drosophyllum has arrived all safe, & I long to see the glands secreting.4
Oliver writes that he is going to send me the dried specimens of Genlisea & I heartily thank him & you.— He tells me of some German paper about Aldrovanda & Utricularia,— if by Cohn I have it.—5
My dear old friend | yours affecty | Ch Darwin
I do not think that there is any risk, but it frightens me to imagine the parcel of Genlisea lost on the Railway.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[Mivart, St George Jackson.] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor.] Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 40–77.
Summary
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9809
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 367–8
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9809,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9809.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23