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From J. D. Hooker   30 July [1867]1

Kew

July 30th.

Dear Darwin

I hope to leave by the Victoria Train at 4.30. pm for Bromley on Saturday & shall be very glad to bring a boy with me.2

Indeed—Indeed I did return Adam Bede 2 years ago, I think that my wife took it with her to town to Q. Anne St. when you were there. You had asked me for it— if I remember right— —3

I wish you would return me “Tylor’s early History of mankind” & my own copy of my “Himalaya Journals” with my own mss notes!—both of which I have lent ie. lost.4

Lyell was here yesterday very well & full of some “Insular” difficulty, that he is to propound to me.5

Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker

Pray remember there is no occasion to send a carriage— I can always get a fly if I should not prefer the walk.

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 July [1867].
3
Hooker had read Adam Bede (Eliot 1859) by April 1860; see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [April 1860]. CD and Hooker also read and discussed several novels by George Eliot in 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13). Hooker’s wife was Frances Harriet Hooker; CD often visited his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at his house in Queen Anne Street, London.
4
Hooker refers to Tylor 1865 and J. D. Hooker 1854. CD and Hooker read and discussed Edward Burnett Tylor’s book in 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13); CD cited it in Variation 2: 122 n. 22. CD cited J. D. Hooker 1854 in Variation 1: 259 n. 67, 307 n. 5, 356 n. 129.
5
Charles Lyell included a chapter on insular floras (chapter 41) in the second volume of the tenth edition of his Principles of geology (C. Lyell 1867–8, 2: 402–32); he referred to Hooker’s recent article on insular floras (J. D. Hooker 1866a; see C. Lyell 1867–8, 2: 419).

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