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.
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
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.