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Darwin Correspondence Project

From J. D. Hooker   24 November 1875

Royal Gardens Kew

Nov 24/75

Dear Darwin

I have taken in the enclosed, not doubting but that it is meant for you1 I am groaning over the RS. Anniversary address which has to deal with much of the current work of the year, & am wringing my hands over the toasts & speeches for next Tuesday.2

So no more from your tortured | J D H.

Footnotes

The enclosure has not been found.
Hooker gave the presidential address at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on London on 30 November 1875 (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 24 (1875–6): 72–94).

Summary

JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10275
From
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 104: 44
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10275,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10275.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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