To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Down. Bromley Kent
14.
My dear Hooker
I have been pained at a mistake which I have made.1 In a letter from Huxley, I misunderstood him that poor dear Henslow was dead, & I inferred that he had seen you & that you were at Kew. I believe & hope that this is all a blunder of mine.— But I wrote to Kew, thinking that you were there, & I fear that Mrs Hooker may have opened my note. This has pained. I much wish to hear how Henslow is going on. I cannot avoid hoping that he may be rallying, or is it really all over.—
But you must be worn out with nursing, so do not write. I know well how even writing a direction is intolerable sometimes. I go to London on Tuesday & daresay I shall hear news there.2
My dear old friend | Yours affecty. | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3119
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 97
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3119,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3119.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9