To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1866]
Down.
Saturday
My dear Hooker
Caspary wrote to me a little time ago that he wanted to meet him;1 I answered that I shd. be very glad to see him here, but that I doubted whether it was worth his while, as I could talk so little with anyone.—2 He writes me a very nice letter & says he shall consult you.—3 Therefore I write to beg you to ask him by all means to come & sleep here, if he has spare time, but at same time tell him the truth how little exertion I can stand. I shd like very much to see him, though I dread all exertion.—4
Yours affect | C. Darwin
London did me no harm,5 but I have not been quite so brilliant lately, I am pleased to see that you will be D.C.L of Oxford.—6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5088
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 288
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5088,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5088.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
