To J. D. Hooker 12 [October 1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
12th
My dear Hooker
I have enjoyed your note full of news.— Will you tell me name of Legum. plant which has set pods.— I presume it never did so before?— I wish the flowers had only been moved.—2 At request of a Gardener I am drawing up an account of appar-ent crossing of Kidney Beans & intend giving all the results of covering up Leguminosæ:3 so I shd. particularly like, to give your case, in Gardeners Chronicle as showing some little practical good of result.4
I have sent 8 copies by post to Wallace, & will keep the others for him, for I could not think of anyone to send any to.—5
I pray you not to pronounce too strongly against Nat. Selection, till you have read my abstract, for though I daresay you will strike out many difficulties, which have never occurred to me; yet you cannot have thought so fully on subject, as I have.— I expect my abstract will run into a small volume, which will have to be published separately.6
Your statement about F. Palgrave will be deeply interesting to some of Ladies, who are gone fairly crazy about the P. Pilgrim.—7
What a splendid lot of work you have in hand.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Pray give our kindest remembrances to Mrs Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Thurstan, Henry J., pseud. [Francis Turner Palgrave]. 1858. The passionate pilgrim; or, Eros and Anteros. London. [Vols. 7,10]
Summary
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2339
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 249
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2339,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2339.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7