To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]1
Shrewsbury
Monday
My dear Hooker
Thanks for your second note correcting the date. If you sail on the 10th & therefore cannot come to me on the 6th (& very sorry my wife will be not to wish you good bye) I will, if it will suit you, come to Kew on Thursday morning & have my phaeton there, & so go straight home in the evening, after spending 2 or 3 hours there.—
Will you let me know, as soon as you know yourself; I shall be here till Tuesday morning early the 2d., & at 7 Park St Grosvenor Square on Tuesday & Wednesday nights; I tell this for you to direct a line to me.— If you are enabled to come to Down I will let you know of a late Train, which I cannot do now, as the Trains are to be altered on Novr 1st.—
I will ask Falconer to come, whether you do or not.—
I must see you again to say in person with how much cordiality & truth, I wish you throughout life success & happiness
Ever my dear Hooker | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1130
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Shrewsbury
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 106
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1130,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1130.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4