To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]1
Down
March 10th
My dear Hooker.
You speak of having nothing to say, but your note contained a heap of things which I liked to hear.2 I daresay I shall hear tomorrow of the book &c &c & Strelitzia (for which hearty thanks) being at Bromley.3 I suppose you would like all future numbers of “Can you forgive her”?4 I entirely agree with what you say about J. Lubbock & parliament;5 I am quite vexed to think of it; but it is the commonest of all kinds of ambition.— We heard yesterday a better account of Mrs. L.—6 I cannot conceive how you have managed to detect so much roguery at Kew; you must have had odious work.—
When you write again, if you can remember, tell me who are authors of Review, on Linn: Transact,—, Planchon—& Sub-Species.—7 I have not yet read all, but I am sure I shall be curious to know.— I dare not guess, for you say that my guesses are always wrong.— Nevertheless I am sure that you wrote a Leader in G. Chronicle on Selection &c as to be discussed in Germany.—8
This reminds me that I am, as it were, reading the “Origin” for the first time, for I am correcting for a 2nd. French Edition;9 & upon my life, my dear fellow, it is a very good book, but oh my gracious it is tough reading & I wish it were done.—
I am in truth sorry that you had trouble & gave Busk, trouble by writing to him;10 for there was no hurry; & I feel sure I must bear my load of daily discomfort, & be thankful that I can occupy myself for a few hours daily.
Farewell my good old friend | Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Bentham, George.] 1865a. The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier. Natural History Review 5: 202–25.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
[Greene, Joseph Reay.] 1865. The Linnean Society’s Transactions. Natural History Review 5: 189–202.
Hall, N. John. 1991. Trollope. A biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Jordan, Alexis. 1864. Diagnoses d’espèces nouvelles ou méconnues, pour servir de matériaux à une flore réformée de la France, et des contrées voisines. Paris: F. Savy.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
[Thomson, Thomas.] 1865. Species and subspecies. Natural History Review 5: 226–42.
Trollope, Anthony. 1864–5. Can you forgive her? 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall.
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4809
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 263
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4809,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4809.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13