To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 14th
My dear Hooker
I am very sorry that you cannot come here, as I had been looking forward to the pleasure, & it would have been a change for you; but I am far more sorry that you are still so much troubled.2 I know no man in the world that has so little merited trouble as you. Good God how I do hope that they will in the House of Lords pitch into that accursed fellow.—3 Come here when you conveniently can—.
Yours affectionately | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8330
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 94: 224
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8330,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8330.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
