To Hyacinth Hooker 10 October [1880]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Oct 10th
My dear Lady Hooker
I am very much obliged for your kind present of the Bananas.—1 The orange-brown ones are the most splendid, aristocratic specimens, I have ever seen.
Believe me | yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Endersby, Jim. 2007. A guinea pig’s history of biology: the plants and animals who taught us the facts of life. London: William Heinemann.
Summary
Thanks for the bananas.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12750
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hyacinth Symonds/Hyacinth Jardine/Hyacinth Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christie’s (dealers) (8 June 2005, lot 56)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12750,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12750.xml