To J. D. Hooker [4 October 1863]1
Malvern Wells2
Sunday
My dear old Friend.
Your note is most pathetic3 I understand well your words: ‘wherever I go, she is there”.— I am so deeply glad that she did not suffer so much, as I feared was inevitable. This was to us with poor Annie the one great comfort.—4 Trust to me that time will do wonders, & without causing forgetfuless of your darling.
I am very weak & can write little.— My nervous system has failed & I am kept going only by repeated doses of brandy; but I am certainly better, much, & sickness stopped.—
God Bless you my best of friends.— Yours affect | C. Darwin
P.S. | I must add that I shall be grateful for a line whenever you are inclined to write.
My head swims badly so no more.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Condolences on death of JDH’s daughter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4318
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Malvern Wells
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 206
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4318,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4318.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
