Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D. on [21 Dec 1862]

Darwin, C. R.

Darwin-Hooker Letters

Thanks for Begonia and Oxalis. Keeps obstinate about crossing and could argue till doomsday, but will not bother Hooker. Sees that Hooker has finished Welwitschia. Thinks Huxley's Working Men's Lectures excellent. Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105], and abstract of Bates's paper for Natural History Review, and has begun to arrange concluding chapters [for Variation]. Is paralysed on how to begin.