To J. D. Hooker   [13 November 1863]

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My dear Hooker.

A letter from you is always one of my greatest pleasures.—1 I enclose Haast, which I did not suppose you wd. care to see.—2 There was a printed address to the Phil. Soc. of Canterbury published some 6 or 12 months ago by Haast.—3 Was it this you wished to see?

I escaped vomiting yesterday & have felt these 2 days better. Dr. Brinton tells me that a little head-work not bad.4 Dr Gully writes again this morning to do nothing for 6 months.5 I presume I must observe & judge for self.— I am glad to hear about Willy.—6 Do not, my dear friend, write when much overworked. | C. D.

Of course use any & all Haast’s facts7

Who reviewed Lyell in Edinburgh in July last??? I inferred it was a real geologist, but one at least 100 years old.8 over

I daresay you have no other tendril-bearing plants.—9 over

Endorsement: ‘Nov 13/63’

2
Following the interest Hooker had expressed in the letter from Julius von Haast of 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 11 November 1863), CD may have decided to also send the letter from Julius von Haast of 6 August 1863, or the map and report that CD mentioned in the postscript to his letter to J. D. Hooker of 10 [November 1863].
3
CD refers to J. F. J. von Haast 1862a. There is a copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
4
Emma Darwin wrote in her diary (DAR 242) ‘good’ for 12 November and ‘fine day’ for 13 November; she also wrote that CD had been visited by William Brinton on 3 November 1863.
5
The letter from James Manby Gully, who had treated CD at his Great Malvern hydropathic establishment in 1849, has not been found.
7
Hooker had asked CD if he could use the information Haast included in his letter of 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4.
8
CD refers to the review of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) in the Edinburgh Review ([J. D. Forbes] 1863); the author of the review was James David Forbes (Wellesley Index).
9
In July, Hooker sent CD some tendril-bearing plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for his research (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] and n. 2, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 August [1863]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4341,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4341