To J. D. Hooker [19 June 1847]
Down
Saturday
My dear Hooker
I write merely to say that your Books arrived safely & very much obliged I am for so magnificent a loan.— The October no. 1845 of Phytologist was not with the others; I opened the packet myself & classed immediately the loose nors. in vols. & so perceived it.— I have begun the Phytologist, & will go through all you sent & then immediately return them.—
I am truly glad to hear by yesterday’s note of your new plants from V.D. & N.Z.— It is a truly wonderful case & to me more odious than any one other case that I can call to mind.1 I cannot tell you how interested I shall be in seeing your results.
Pray mark out for the ignorant the plants common or closely analogous in D.V. N.Z. or F,2 & which are not common to the northern hemisphere.—
Farewell—with thanks for all the many things I owe you for.— | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1099
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 97
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1099,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1099.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4