From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
