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To J. D. Hooker   11 April [1861]

Down Bromley Kent

Ap. 11.

My dear Hooker

In a note received this morning, Huxley mentions poor dear Henslow’s death.1 Thank God his sufferings are over.— I need not say how truly I sympathise with Mrs. Hooker’s & your own grief.— I think he was the best, the most noble character I ever knew. It will ever do one good to think of him.—

My dear friend | Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘/61’

1
The letter from Thomas Henry Huxley has not been found. CD had misunderstood Huxley’s note: John Stevens Henslow was seriously ill but still alive. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [April 1861].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3116,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3116