From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1866]1
Kew
Saturday
Dear Darwin
By all means let Heer have the Bournemouth leaves, I have no time even to look at them; & Heer works them better than anyone— They are usually so fragile that they should be so packed at once, as not to be disturbed till in the hands of Heer. & Sulivan had better take a little time & patience about that point. How to get them to Heer is another point, I will write & ask him.2
I am very glad you have taken up the Book-cutting matter.3 I had a great mind to— The Yankees are far ahead of us in all such matters.4 Our Publishers are Penny-wise Pound foolish, Pragmatical Prigs— there then— I have spoken to several on the subject, but none would even listen.
Ever yrs | J D Hooker.
I go on Monday to Norwich for 3 days
Footnotes
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Tebbel, John. 1972. A history of book publishing in the United States. Vol. 1, The creation of an industry, 1630–1865. New York and London: R. R. Bowker.
Summary
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5328
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 129–30
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5328,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5328.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
