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From J. D. Hooker   [21 July 1864]1

Kew

Thursday

Dear Darwin

We returned from Ireland yesterday—2 May I come to you on Saturday afternoon?3 & if I do may I bring Charlie4 with me— he can amuse himself famously— I shall have to return early on Monday as I am alone at Kew.—

Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker

1
The date is established by the reference to Hooker’s visit to Ireland (see n. 2, below), and by the reference to Hooker’s visit to Down on 24 July (see n. 3, below). The preceding Thursday was 21 July.
2
Hooker and his wife, Frances Harriet, had been on holiday in County Wicklow, Ireland (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 July 1864).
3
Hooker visited CD on Sunday 24 July (letter from J. D. Hooker to Asa Gray, 29 July 1864, Gray Herbarium of Harvard University).
4
Charles Paget Hooker, Hooker’s nine-year-old son.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4572,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4572