To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1861]
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 11.
My dear Hooker
In a note received this morning, Huxley mentions poor dear Henslow’s death.1 Thank God his sufferings are over.— I need not say how truly I sympathise with Mrs. Hooker’s & your own grief.— I think he was the best, the most noble character I ever knew. It will ever do one good to think of him.—
My dear friend | Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The letter from Thomas Henry Huxley has not been found. CD had misunderstood Huxley’s note: John Stevens Henslow was seriously ill but still alive. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [April 1861].
Summary
CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3116
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 96
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3116,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3116.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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