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From J. D. Hooker   24 September 1880

Royal Gardens Kew

Sept. 24/80.

Dear Darwin

The De Candolles ♂ & ♀ are here & the ♂ wants very much to visit you & see your Laboratory!— What am I to say to him?.— They came here today & we have arranged dinner parties for them on Saturday & Tuesday—so I suppose Monday would be a possible day for him, or Wednesday.1 I know he goes back next week.

The Grays stay into next week then go to Spain, then to Paris for A. G. to work for a fortnight— we shall join them late in December for a trip to Rome & Naples.2

Ever aff Yrs | J D Hooker

2
Asa Gray planned to visit herbaria in Europe to research volume 2 of his synoptical flora of North America (A. Gray 1878–84). He and his wife, Jane Loring Gray, spent the autumn of 1880 in Spain and France, winter at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, spring 1881 in Italy, and summer at Kew, returning home in October 1881. Hooker and his wife Hyacinth Hooker joined them for a tour of Italy in early March 1881. (J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 701 and 714.)

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