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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

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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

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