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To J. D. Hooker   27 [or 28 September 1865]

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Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.

The Reader.

Politics and science.

Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.

[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [27 or 28] Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 115: 275
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4901

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  • Emma, and Elizabeth Darwin often read to CD (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n.  9, and letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 22 September [1865] ). CD refers to Tylor 1865  and Lecky 1865 ; Hooker had recommended them in his letters of [26 May 1865] and 13 July 1865. CD’s bound volumes, many with annotations, of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History , ser.  1: vols.  1–20 (1838–47); ser.  2: vols.  1–14 (1848– …
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