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To J. D. Hooker   [25 March 1847]1

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Thursday

My dear Hooker

I am so stomachy today that I have not heart or courage for the exertion of London & Kew.— I hope & trust I cannot have put you to any inconvenience.

Thanks for your note yesterday; I will in two days get all my Nulliporæ together & send them by next Carrier, ie Wednesday night to Mrs Reeve.—2

I shall be up to the Geolog. on the 14th of April & shall stay in London, if able, some days for I have much to do & will then come to Kew for a day.

Ever yours | rather wretchedly | C. Darwin

1
For the basis of the date see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 March 1847], n. 1.
2
Reeve Brothers, the publishing firm and natural history dealers owned by Lovell Augustus Reeve. The seaweed specimens were to be forwarded to William Henry Harvey, the Irish algologist, for identification and description. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1847], and letter to William Henry Harvey, [7 April 1847]. Hooker was at this time compiling a list of Tasmanian seaweeds in association with Harvey (J. D. Hooker and Harvey 1847).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1076,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1076