Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Thanks for <i>Begonia</i> and <i>Oxalis</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Keeps obstinate about crossing and could argue till doomsday, but will not bother JDH.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Sees that JDH has finished <i>Welwitschia</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Thinks Huxley’s Working Men’s Lectures excellent.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has finished <i>Linum</i> paper [<i>Collected papers</i> 2: 93–105],</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>and abstract of Bates’s paper for <i>Natural History Review</i>,</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>and has begun to arrange concluding chapters [for <i>Variation</i>]. Is paralysed on how to begin.</p>