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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. D. Hooker   [23 January 1867]

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My dear H.—

I shd much like Miquel’s Photograph—1 Give him my address & do not bother yourself with sending it— Thanks for your pleasant letter just received—2 We are very glad Mrs H. goes on well3

Ever yours | C. Darwin

You had better not send, if in earnest, the earth from St. Helena to me, as I could not distinguish commonest weed from the rarest now extinct plant—4

Footnotes

See Correspondence vol. 15, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 January 1867.
Frances Harriet Hooker had recently given birth.
CD had joked that he would like a cask or two of St Helena earth from below the surface so that he could try to revive lost species of plants (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 January [1867] and n. 8, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 January 1867).

Summary

Would like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel’s photograph, but JDH should give CD’s address to FAWM.

Thanks for letter and glad Frances Harriet Hooker goes on well.

Do not send St Helena earth.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5376F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sent from
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Source of text
Bonhams (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 51)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5376F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5376F.xml

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