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April 21/82

Dear Ramsay

I have sent your [daughter] the ticket & it will be a great pleasure to see her & Mr Williamson [I'll give] them any aid in my power.

We have lost Darwin. He had been very unwell with heart eruptions for 6 weeks & more, but we hoped he was getting better. On Tuesday night a sever attack came on & after 15 hours of suffering all was over.

To me his loss is a terrible

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blank– he [poured] his love & initiatives into Science [illeg] Henslow, who he regarded with the deepest love & esteem, & we have been as brothers since 1849.

Spottiswoode & I telegraphed yesterday to the family, offering to apply for internment in the Abbey.

Cole is gone too, & is at Camb. having justice done to his marvellous administrative genius & activity, & the many benefits he has conferred on his country.

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J D Hooker