To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1855]

Down.

June 2^d

My dear Hooker

I hope this note may arrive in time to save you looking for Watson’s (?) paper on plants of Azores,¹ & from troubling you to write to me.—

I have had a sudden revulsion of feeling since I wrote to you, & cannot endure the thoughts of trying all the Azorean seeds which I could procure.² I have had a very bad week with my stomach which perhaps is partly the cause, as I am disgusted with myself & all the world. Forgive the senseless manner I may have caused you trouble.

Ever yours | C. Darwin

See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 May [1855], n. 5.

By the end of June CD had again changed his mind and was at work on the problem of plant migration to the Azores. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1855], and the correspondence during the following fortnight.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1692,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1692

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Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].

CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-1692
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date: 2 June [1855]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: DAR 114: 134
Physical description: 2pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5.

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