From J. D. Hooker   6 August 1868

Kew

Aug. 6/68

My dear Darwin

I hope to get down on Saturday by the 11.10 Train from Waterloo: if I should be unexpectedly detained I must take the 3.10. Baby is pretty well & wife not knocked up1

Ever yr affec | J D Hooker

1
Hooker was planning to visit the Darwins at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. The Saturday following 6 August 1868 was 8 August. Grace Ellen Hooker, the two-month-old daughter of Frances Harriet and Joseph Dalton Hooker, had been ill (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 July 1868).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6307,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6307