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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. D. Hooker   [14 November 1846]

[Down]

Sat. Morn.

My dear Hooker

No one of my children was ever so delighted with a new plaything as I am with the looks of my charming lens’. Many thanks for them.

I write now to propose, as you say you have nothing else to do in London, that I shall come down to Kew on Thursday or Friday.— If both days suited you equally well, you should leave the choice open to me, according as my stomach feels; otherwise I would come on either day fixed by Luncheon time.

If I do not hear from you, in note to Park St., I shall expect you on Friday at Park St. at 1112.—

I find the microscope work really delightful, & I am this morning going to begin with a new animal & with my new lens’.—

Farewell— what a good thing is community of tastes, I feel as if I had known you for fifty years— adios | C. Darwin

Summary

Proposes to visit Kew.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1024
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 114: 72
Physical description
ALS 3pp & C

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1024,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1024.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3

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