From J. D. Hooker   [15 April 1862]1

Dr. Darwin

Will it be convenient to Mrs Darwin to receive Willy & me from Thursday till Monday? if so we will find our way down that afternoon.2 I shall not want dinner, so do not arrange or disarrange for us.

Next week would suit us equally well.

Ever yours affec | Jos D Hooker

Kew   Tuesday.

1
The date is established by the relationship to the letter to H. W. Bates, 16 April [1862].
2
Hooker and his eldest son, William Henslow Hooker, had been invited to spend Easter at Down House (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 March [1862]); according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), they stayed at Down from Thursday 17 April to Monday 21 April 1862.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3506,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3506