To J. D. Hooker   [23 February 1860]1

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Thursday

My dear Hooker

As usual when I set my heart on anything I cannot do it—a bad cold has made my stomach intolerably bad.—   It is the more provoking as I must, if I can, be in London tomorrow to see my Doctor—   I am so very sorry that you will have gone early to club. for my sake.—2

I enclose A. Gray’s letter as it is partly Botanical; please return it in empty cover.—3 I send, also, the remainder of Gray’s Review.—   Please forward it to Dr Boott4 as requested & ask him to send it to Lyell.—

Yours ever | C. D.

Endorsement: ‘Feb/60’

1
Dated by the endorsement and by the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 February 1860].
2
CD had hoped to attend a meeting of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society on 23 February 1860 (letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 February 1860]).
3
Asa Gray’s letter has not been found.
4
Francis Boott, the American-born physician and botanist, was a close friend of Hooker’s and Gray’s. The reference is to [Gray] 1860a.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 It] over ‘I’
1.3 very] interl
2.2 remainder of Gray’s] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2708,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2708