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To J. D. Hooker   28 [July 1855]1

Down

28th.

My dear Hooker

Henslow dines with me at 57 Queen Anne St. on Tuesday Aug 7th at 7 oclock. Could you not, with this notice, contrive a day’s work in London, & so dine with us? It would be very pleasant.—

I have just received your most magnificent illustrated work,2 & most splendid it is. I am very full of you at present for I am in the middle of the Indian Flora & of course greatly interested with it. I had a letter the other day from Bunbury full of praise of the same.—3 Adios.

Do come on 7th if you can find anything else to do in London.—

I hope Mrs. Hooker is going on well: pray give her our very sincere congratulations & very kind remembrances

once again adios | C. D.

1
Dated on the basis of CD’s intention to visit London on 7 and 8 August 1855 (see letter to J. S. Henslow, 23 [July 1855]).
2
J. D. Hooker 1855.
3
The letter has not been found, but F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Middle life 2: 363 records that Charles James Fox Bunbury was ‘exceedingly pleased with Hooker’s “Flora Indica”.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1731,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1731