From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 185
Summary:
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."
He is sending two copies of vol. 1 of German edition of Variation. Thanks CD for rights to translate future works. Carus has begun translation of second volume. Asks when English edition will appear.
CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.