To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1872]
Summary
CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.
The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8449 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872
Summary
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8450 |
To R. F. Cooke 4 August 1872
Summary
Asks whether he can tell Appleton that Murray will supply clichés and stereotypes [for Expression] at only a small profit. Will make same offer to other foreign editors. Prefers that W. S. Dallas prepare the index.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 258–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8451 |
To Oswald Heer 4 August [1872–4]
Summary
Thanks OH for two memoirs on the fossil flora of Bear Island and Spitzbergen [K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 8 (1869) no. 7; 9 (1870) no. 5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 4 Aug [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8454 |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |