From J. D. Hooker 6 August 1868
Kew
Aug. 6/68
My dear Darwin
I hope to get down on Saturday by the 11.10 Train from Waterloo: if I should be unexpectedly detained I must take the 3.10. Baby is pretty well & wife not knocked up1
Ever yr affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Hooker was planning to visit the Darwins at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. The Saturday following 6 August 1868 was 8 August. Grace Ellen Hooker, the two-month-old daughter of Frances Harriet and Joseph Dalton Hooker, had been ill (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 July 1868).
Summary
Coming on Saturday.
Baby and wife pretty well.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6307
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 224
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6307,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6307.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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