To J. D. Hooker   2 [June 1870]

Down

2d

My dear Hooker

I have been glad to see Watson’s letter. I must study your manner of arrangement of vars. & subspecies &c.—1

No wonder you are proud; I suppose the man is a very good judge & he is surely very clever, & considering his temper & delight in finding fault, I shd. think his note was the greatest complement ever paid to any human being!!2

Yours affect | C. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘June/70’

1
Hewett Cottrell Watson had written to Hooker to praise his Student’s flora of the British Islands (Hooker 1870); see letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1870] and enclosure.
2
For an earlier disagreement between Hooker and Watson, see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1868.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7214,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7214