To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Down Bromley Kent
March 11th
My dear Hooker
Mrs. Huxley has come here with her children for a change of air, & Huxley has just gone back to London; & says he will come here next Sunday.1 Can I persuade you to come on next Saturday for the Sunday.2 A train leaves the new Victoria Station at 5o P.M. & gets into Bromley at 5o 30’ & my carriage shd. meet you & I would send you back early on Monday (if you wished to go) as Huxley must then go. If you can come it would be much pleasure to us all; but I hear from Huxley you are not very well.
Will you send me a line by return of Post; for this reason, I feel bound to ask Carpenter, who about a year ago expressed a wish to this effect, & I shd feel much safer if you were here, as I have been continually knocked up of late. But you must not think of coming if for any reason disinclined; & if you do not come, I shall not ask Carpenter. Perhaps in any case he would not come.—3
We have just made up our minds to go to Malvern about 1st of May for 6 weeks or two months, that I may have a dose of Hydropathy.—4 We continue rubbing in the oil into Etty & hope & think it does her good.—5
Yours affecty. | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3085
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115.2: 89
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3085,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3085.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9