From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 268–9
Summary:
Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.
Has been half killing himself with Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project