From J. D. Hooker 31 March 1867
Kew
March 31/67.
Dear Darwin
We have no hopes for our pretty little baby whose fits increase in number & duration—1 Happily it suffers little, the nerves of motion exclusively being affected. This suspense is very painful.
Mrs Hooker2 is pretty well
I keep her in bed next door to the child.
Ever dear old Darwin | Yrs affec | J D Hooker
Percival Wright was here today on his way to the Seychelles to spend some months collecting—3
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
Baby’s situation hopeless.
E. Perceval Wright on way to Seychelles for collecting.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5477
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 156
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5477,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5477.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
