To J. D. Hooker   [4 June 1845]¹

My dear Hooker

I hope you are getting on well with your lectures & that you have enjoyed some pleasant walks during the late delightful weather. I write to tell you (as perhaps you might have had fears on the subject) that your books have arrived safely, viz., your paper,—M. Gerard’s one on Species,² which I am particularly glad to see & have sent to endeavour to get one—Boston Journal—Canary Is^d—D’Urville³ — I am exceedingly obliged to you for them, & will take great care of them: they will take me some time to read carefully.

I send to day the corrected M.S. of the first number of my Journal in the Colonial Library,⁴ so that if you chance to know of any gross mistake in the first 214 pages, (if you have my Journal), I sh^d be obliged to you to tell me. I have just heard from Sulivan, that he has made a grand collection of fossil quadrupeds from the R. Gallegos in the southern part of Patagonia.⁵

Do not answer this for form sake; for you must be very busy. We have just had the Lyells here, & you ought to have a wife to stop you working too much, as M^rs Lyell peremptorily stops Lyell.

Ever yours | C. Darwin