To William Jackson Hooker [30 July 1858]1
Isle of Wight
Friday.
Dear Sir William Hooker
As I am writing to your son, I must thank you for so very kindly taking the trouble to send me the extract about the seeds cast up on the extreme n. shores of the Pacific.—2
I had never heard of this, & am glad to hear of every case of the transport of seeds per sea.—
With very many thanks for your kindness pray believe me | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Summary
Thanks WJH for an extract on seed transport by sea. [Letter sent with 2314.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2315
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Jackson Hooker
- Sent from
- Shanklin
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence S. American letters 1852–8, 38: 148)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2315,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2315.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7