To J. D. Hooker 2 November [1858]
Down Bromley Kent
Nov. 2d
My dear Hooker
I have pleasure in enclosing draft for 330 for Mr Ralfs1—if you fail in getting amount I will add £2s2 more.—
I hardly like sending Circulars to friends who are not naturalists, & all Naturalists you will think of, as J. Lubbock, Bunbury, Leighton of Shrewsbury, C. Spence Bate of Plymouth.2 Ld. Overstone professes to care for Science3 I would send him one.— You can send one to Miss Carr care of The Lady Cranworth4 Holwood Bromley, Kent She is interested in such subjects & kind, I fancy pretty rich.— Add my name in M.S. to List5 T. C. Eyton Esq Eyton Wellington Salop. I can think of no one else. Mr Peters (& I do not know his address) a rich Banker cares, or did care, much about Microscopes.—6
If I can think of any one else I will let you know.—
Many thanks for information about Museum; you seem progressing well.—7 I suppose Kensington Gore must be borne; but I must think a very large proportion of those who now visit Brit. Mus. go there on their feet & will not go by Railway, even if not costing more than an Omnibus.—8 I confess I feel rather frightened at change but sincerely hope that it is vain fear; & as Government is moving, I thoroughily agree to wisdom of naturalists moving.
Moor Park did me wonderful good & I walked one day 4 miles! with only a few rests!
My dear Hooker | Ever yours | C. Darwin
The following addresses would be worth I think a penny stamp. Revd. W. Darwin Fox Delamere Rectory Northwich E. Vernon Harcourt Esq 9 Hastings E. Darwin Esq 57. Queen Anne St J. M. Herbert Esq 10 County Court Judge Hereford Wollaston 10 Hereford St Park Lane11 J. G. Perry Esq 12 12 Westbourne St Hyde Park Gardens H. C. Watson13 Thames Ditton W. H. Benson Esq 14 28 Grt. George St Portman Sqe
N.B. If many give or you think I ought to give more than 330 tear up my draft & I will at once send 550.15
You may add my name in M.S. for all these to list of Committee, if you like.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Summary
On moving the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Subscription for John Ralfs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2351
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 252
- Physical description
- ALS 6pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2351,” accessed on 19 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2351.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7