Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin [31 May 1870]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!</p>