To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Nov. 21st
My dear Hooker
I was most sincerely sorry to receive your little note, saying how dangerously ill Mrs. Henslow was.2 I am sure Mrs. Hooker & all at Hitcham have my most sincere sympathy. If the worst does happen & you make any stay at Hitcham do just say to my dear & most kind friend, Henslow, how truly I feel for his sorrow. I will not trouble him with writing to him.— To the last day of my life I shall feel under what deep obligations I lie to Henslow & Mrs. Henslow for their extraordinary kindness to me at Cambridge. How many pleasant little dinners I have had with them; & how invariably kind poor Mrs. Henslow was to me.3 I do hope she has not suffered much. They were like the nearest & most affectionate relations to me.—
My dear Hooker | Yours affectionately | C. Darwin
I shd. like much to have ever so short a scrap to tell me how Henslow is.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Mrs J. S. Henslow’s illness.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2174
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 213
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2174,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2174.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
