From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Royal Gardens Kew
Oct 7/79
Dear Darwin
Please get me good specimens of enclosed from Miss Wedgwood Garden1 I want to draw it, & also roots (if perennial:)
In haste | Yrs | J D Hooker
Saracenia & Darlingtonia do not care for “light & sweetness” hitherto2
Footnotes
Emma Darwin’s sister, Elizabeth Wedgwood, lived in Down. The enclosure has not been found.
Sarracenia (trumpet pitcher-plants) and Darlingtonia californica (the California pitcher-plant; Darlingtonia is a monospecific genus) are insectivorous plants. Hooker had evidently found that they were not heliotropic (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 October 1879 and n. 4). ‘Light & sweetness’: an ironic reference to the idiom ‘sweetness and light’, popularised by Matthew Arnold’s Culture and anarchy (Arnold 1869).
Bibliography
Arnold, Matthew. 1869. Culture and anarchy: an essay in political and social criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
Summary
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12251
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 133
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12251,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 27
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