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To J. D. Hooker   18 [May 1859]1

Down.

18th

My dear Hooker

My health has quite failed. I am off tomorrow for a week of Hydropathy.—2 I am very very sorry to say that I cannot look over any proofs in this week, as my object is to drive the subject out of my head.3 I shall return tomorrow week. If it be worth while, which probably it is not, you could keep back any proof till my return home

In Haste | Ever yours | C. Darwin

1
Dated by CD’s visit to Moor Park hydropathic establishment from 21 to 28 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II).
2
CD’s journal records that he actually left for Moor Park on 21 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II).
3
CD refers to the proofs of Hooker 1859, which he was reading as they became ready.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2463,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2463