From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 86–7
Summary:
JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.