To J. D. Hooker 19 [April 1864]
[Down]
19th
My dear Hooker
I will not plague you about Scott again; but do read enclosed.1 I suppose I am prejudiced in his favour, but it seems to me a good note & only moderately unreasonable— Can you give him any hope of being taken at Kew?2 I do not know how humble a place he would accept—
I am awfully tempted to have him here;3 but Emma begs me rather to send him £100, as she thinks it would have kill me.— Moreover my under gardener is becoming a skilful crosser & most slow & cautious—4 what men these Scotsmen are;5 I have just had a long article on the Origin from an Edinburgh Baker; really wonderful in its originality & knowledge, but oh such spelling “hippothicis”6 &c &c
Flourens has just published a book apparently pitching into me. in grand style—7 I am going on capitally in health & 2 days ago put on a cloth coat.—
Farewell my dear old fellow | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1864. Examen du livre de M. Darwin sur l’origine des espèces. Paris: Garnier Frères.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Tort, Patrick. 1996. Dictionnaire du Darwinisme et de l’evolution. 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Summary
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4468
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 230
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4468,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4468.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12