From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 222–3
Summary:
Overjoyed at the way the newspapers have taken up JDH’s case. The memorial has done great good this way, whatever the wretched Government does. It is enough to make one a Tory. JDH has done a service to all men of science by showing governments that they cannot be trampled on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project