To J. D. Hooker 28 March [1871]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
March 28th
My dear Hooker
Many thanks for your very jolly letter.2 I send off a small plant of the Hibiscus today by rail.— It has been kept in the cooler of my two Hothouses, & will soon be covered with flowers— I hope it will travel safely.3
Take enclosed with you & ask your 2 friends to read it once or twice for chance of any one point being observed.—4
I am sure you must want a change & rest & I hope it will do you a world of good.—
I enjoy no Kudos whatever like that of accuracy so you are quite right to boast5
Thanks for all your answers. Do not forget about quite young plants of Drosophyllum.6
Farewell my dear old friends.
Yours affecty | C. Darwin
I now hear from Murray that Edit. of my book will probably be 6500.—7
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Sends Hibiscus
and enclosure [Queries about expression?] on chance of "any point being observed" in Morocco.
Murray informs him edition of Descent will probably be 6500 copies.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7630
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 193–4
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7630,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7630.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19