To J. D. Hooker   14 May [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 14th

My dear Hooker

I am very sorry that you cannot come here, as I had been looking forward to the pleasure, & it would have been a change for you; but I am far more sorry that you are still so much troubled.2 I know no man in the world that has so little merited trouble as you. Good God how I do hope that they will in the House of Lords pitch into that accursed fellow.—3 Come here when you conveniently can—.

Yours affectionately | C. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1872.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8330,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8330