To ? 14 June [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
June 14th
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your kind note & offer.— I have sent the list to Dr Hooker & have told him to write direct to you if they desire any or all at Kew.—2 As Hooker is very much over-worked I have told him that I have told you, that if you did not hear in 2 or 3 or 4 days the seeds were not wanted at Kew.— I really have no where else to recommend.—
I am sorry to say my Translator could not agree with Publisher, & I see no chance whatever of French Translation.—3 There was good Review lately in the Revue des Deux Mondes & in Bib. Univ. of Geneva.—4
I am extremely much pleased to hear what you say about young men: I knew well I shd. never convert old stagers.—
I am sorry to say that my eldest daughter has long been very ill; & I am much harassed and unwell—5 I fear there is little chance of my being at Oxford—6
In Haste | My dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. Nouvelle théorie d’histoire naturelle. L’origine des espèces. Revue des deux mondes 2d ser. 26: 644–71.
Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1860. Sur l’origine de l’espèce par Charles Darwin. Bibliothèque universelle. Revue suisse et étrangère n.s. 7: 233–55.
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2832F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2832F,” accessed on 5 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2832F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)