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To Hyacinth Hooker   8 January 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 8th. 1880

My dear Lady Hooker

I thank you much for your good wishes for all of us, & for your very kind & welcome present of the Bananas.1

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Hooker’s letter has not been found. The Darwins occasionally received presents of bananas from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; see, for example, Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Hyacinth Hooker, [18 November 1877].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12411F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12411F