From J. D. Hooker   12 April [1865]¹

D^r Darwin

The Strelitzia & books never went till today.²

My Father is very unwell with Bronchitis & Influenza & we very uneasy about him, he being 79$\frac{3}{4}$ ³   Last week, after a hard mornings work in the Gardens, he went to the City in the afternoon, to see a nephew⁴ ill of Typhus. it was the first hot day & knocked him up.

Many thanks for your note.⁵ Bentham wrote on Planchon   Thomson on subspecies & Greene of Cork on Linn. Trans.⁶ I shall be curious for your criticisms— I did the Darwinian thing in G. C.—(right for once— exceptions makes rules)⁷ I can think of nothing else nasty to say & so good bye

Ever Yrs affec | J D Hooker

I am egregiously delighted with your calm judgement on the “Origin”.⁸ Do you know I have reread some of my papers with the same result & never was wrong once in my opinion