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To J. D. Hooker 6 June [1868]
Summary
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6233 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1868]
Summary
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6243 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [June 1868]
Summary
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 [June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 72–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
