From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
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- … ill. Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria. Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused …
- … would rather go to two burials than one marriage. Has heard from Huxley who is threatening …
- … 1871 and n. 14. Hooker refers to the marriage of Henrietta Emma Darwin and Richard …
- … home by the Rhine— I have not seen the marriage in the paper— I hope all passed off with …
- … rather go to two burials than one marriage, any day— I heard from Mr Huxley yesterday— …
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876
Summary
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10556 |
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- … plants. Preparing new editions of botany text-books. His marriage is set for August. …
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 December 1874
Summary
His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.
Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 236–8; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Dawson 2.214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9768 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 January 1875
Summary
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9800 |
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- … on George Howard Darwin’s paper on marriage ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70, G. H. Darwin …
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1877
Summary
JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.
JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 82–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10975 |
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- … No letter from CD regarding the proposed marriage of Hooker’s daughter Harriet Anne to …
From J. D. Hooker 29 December 1874
Summary
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 243–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9788 |
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- … Society ( ODNB ). George’s paper on marriage was published in the Contemporary Review ( …
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
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- … 1 (1869–70): 13–18). John Gunn , Hooker’s uncle by marriage, was a member of the society. …
From J. D. Hooker [31 December 1862]
Summary
JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].
CD’s projected three volume work.
Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3890 |
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- … Anthony Froude . Hooker refers to the marriage of his cousin, F. T. Palgrave, to Cecil …
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
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- … we had not spent 5 happier days since our marriage. Ever yours | J D Hooker 1.1 from him … …
From J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1862]
Summary
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3611 |
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- … reference to Leonard Jenyns’s impending marriage to Sarah Hawthorn (see n. 8, below). See …
From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |
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- … and by the mention of the forthcoming marriage between Francis Turner Palgrave and Cecil …
From J. D. Hooker [26–31 August 1862]
Summary
On microscopes.
Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26–31 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3697 |
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- … Fyne & perhaps shall join him after the marriage, (on the 4 th ) but we are uncertain as …
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1869]
Summary
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6608 |
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- … Edmunds, Suffolk (General Register Office, marriage certificate no. 407). The notice has …
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1862
Summary
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3725 |
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- … that will save me a world of trouble. The marriage went off well & has pleased us all. We …
From J. D. Hooker 18 July 1874
Summary
Two Nepenthes have devoured two pieces of fibrin [sketch shows size] in three days.
Has CD any objection to JDH’s giving an account of CD’s Drosera observations at Belfast [BAAS meeting] in a résumé of pitcher-plant results ["Address to the department of botany and zoology", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9553 |
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- … Albani sang ‘Dove sono’, an aria from the Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . …
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
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- … Harriet, making him Hooker’s uncle by marriage ( Allan 1967 , ‘Hooker pedigree’). Hooker …
From J. D. Hooker [25 March 1846]
Summary
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 188–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-964 |
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- … Norfolk whither I went for my sisters marriage, & back again. As soon as I possibly can, I …
From J. D. Hooker [before 7 March 1855]
Summary
CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.
Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.
Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 216–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1638 |
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- … I returned yesterday from Thomson’s marriage at Bath, he has left for India via France. I …
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St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … in different groups. Most cultures forbade consanguineous marriages to some degree, and some forbade …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … pragmatic world portrayed by Jane Austen, where successful marriages, even when feelings ran high, …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.’ …