From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 72–3
Summary:
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project