To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1855]
Down.
Aug 11
My dear Hooker
I forgot to say that I left Book from Henslow for you at Athenæum:—you might not ask for it.—it is a Hand-Book.—1
Secondly I forgot to ask whether when Asa Gray wrote last to me through you, whether he sent the marked sheet of his Manual.2 Some expressions in letter made me fancy it was then sent.— If it comes when you are absent, what shall be done? Will Sir William be so very kind as to send it by some safe channel to 57 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Sqr.—or to Athenæum, though I think former safer.—
Goodbye. | C. Darwin
I am in tremendous spirits for I have just made out a new & wonderful (almost generic) specific (!) character between two Breeds of my Pigeons.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Gray, Asa. 1848. A manual of the botany of the northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe and Company. London: John Chapman.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1738
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1738,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1738.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
