To J. D. Hooker [29 November 1845]1
Down Bromley Kent
Saturday
My dear Hooker
We are delighted that you will come.— I write now to tell you that the Croydon Railway per Sydenham is much the best way here. I believe coaches go only in the morning & late in evening to Bromley & then you have 6 & miles here in a Fly.— If Waterhouse does not come, my phaeton will hold three perfectly well with one on the Box.— Coming this way you will have the morning till 2o. 20’ in London for business.— If Waterhouse comes, I intend sending a Fly as well as my phaeton; now do you oblige me & come in & say not a word about payment, because Waterhouse (between ourselves) is very poor & it wd vex me exceedingly if he (or indeed anyone) had to pay hard cash for coming here, when I derive so infinitely more pleasure than any one else can have from coming here.
Now be you goodnatured & help me.—
In some respects, I shd. have enjoyed a visit from you yourself better than with others, but for several reasons (besides being heartily glad to see them) I was obliged to ask Falconer, & I had long wished to ask Forbes, but I doubted whether he wd. like to come.
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-931
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 49
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 931,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-931.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3