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To Maria Hooker   31 August [1850]

Down Farnborough Kent

Aug 31.

Dear Lady Hooker

I am truly sorry to hear of Sir William’s illness1 & sincerely hope he may soon recover his strength: pray give him my kind regards & thanks for the enclosed note & extract.— I had never even heard of Mr. Hodgson’s Physico=geographical memoir:2 if a copy has ever come for me, it may be lying at some of the Societies, in which case I shall probably soon receive it.— Whenever I read it, should I have anything to remark, I will assuredly write direct to Mr. Hodgson.—

I am delighted to hear that your son is enjoying the grand Sylhet mountains.—3

Pray believe me. | Yours sincerely obliged | C. Darwin

1
W. J. Hooker suffered from a serious recurrent throat ailment (see Allan 1967, p. 188).
2
Hodgson 1849.
3
See letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 and 7 April 1850. Hooker set out on his expedition to the Khasia Hills and Silhet on 1 May 1850.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.3 Lady] ‘L’ over ‘l’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1349,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1349