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From J. D. Hooker   8 July 1874

Royal Gardens Kew

July 8/74

Dear Darwin

I shall leave Charing X by the 4..12: for Orpington (I suppose)1 The apetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.2

Yours ever | J D Hooker

1
Hooker visited CD on 11 July 1874 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Orpington was the closest railway station to Down House.
2
Hooker had recently resumed his experimental work on the tropical pitcher-plant, Nepenthes (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 July 1874 and n. 1).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9537,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9537