RECORD: Darwin, Francis. n.d. He writes to Hooker (March 28 1849). CUL-DAR200.3.62. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. This was copied for preparation for Life and letters (1887).


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He writes to Hooker (March 28 1849)

On the 13th of November my poor dear Father died, & no one who did not know him would believe that a man above 83 years old, could have retained so tender and affectionate a disposition, with all his sagacity unclouded to the last

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