To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1868]1
Dumbola2 Lodge | Freshwater. | I. of Wight
Saturday 17th
My dear Hooker
Even two days from home have done my head so much good that I shall be up any time for a moderate amount of talk, & shall much enjoy seeing you & hearing about your Address.—3
It will not signify to you, but we are much disappointed in this place, which strikes us as very far from beautiful, & our House proves much too small.— But I daresay things will improve, & if I can keep better it will answer for me.—
You must come by S.W Railway to Lymington & cross to Yarmouth4 & Coach thence passes our door.—
Yours affect. | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6279
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Freshwater
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 78–9
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6279,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6279.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
