To J. D. Hooker 2 February [1865]1
Down
Feby 2d.
My dear Hooker
I heard this morning of Falconer’s death.2 Poor fellow I am much grieved; It will be a great loss to science. What a lot of knowledge of all kinds has perished with him. He was always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—
But I write to ask you to write me ever so short a note to tell me when you are well.—3 I got pretty well on Monday & had bad day again yesterday.— Whenever you can come here for a Sunday do pray come. I must take my chance of being well or ill; for I can rarely tell even a day before hand; but last week I had an extra bad time.—4 I hope you have got over that horrid influenza, which makes a man feel so wretchedly ill.
Farewell | Yours affectionately | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.
His own health has been especially bad this last week.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4762
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 259
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4762,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4762.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
