From J. D. Hooker [17 December 1871]1
Kew
Sunday
Dear Darwin
I quite forgot that I had a friend coming to lunch with me tomorrow, & so I cannot meet Sir Henry Holland & taste the Grouse2
It is very probable that he has seen Mr Lowe already & may be able to give you some idea of his views, if so & you can let me know anything I should be thankful to hear it.3
I had half an hour with Lyell after leaving Q. A. Street & found him wonderfully well— I am to take him to the Phil. Club on Thursday—4 Will you not come too?
Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
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MacLeod, Roy M. 1974. The Ayrton incident: a commentary on the relations of science and government in England, 1870–1873. In Science and values: patterns of tradition and change, edited by Arnold Thackray and Everett Mendelsohn. New York: Humanities Press.
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Summary
Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8108
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 98
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8108,” accessed on 23 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8108.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
