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From J. D. Hooker   30 July [1867]

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Plans to come to Down on Saturday.

Returned Adam Bede two years ago.

Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind

and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".

Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 July [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 172–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5588

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  • Hooker, 29 July [1867] . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 July [1867] and n.  2. Hooker had read Adam Bede ( Eliot 1859 ) …

To J. D. Hooker   29 July [1867]

Summary

Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.

Asks him to return Adam Bede.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 July [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 143
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5587

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, [27 July 1867] . CD refers to Hooker’s sons Charles Paget and William Henslow Hooker . CD refers to Eliot 1859 . …

From J. D. Hooker   [20 September 1867]

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Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Sept 1867]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5631

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  • Hooker, 31 August 1867 ). Hooker refers to Eliot 1859 . CD evidently found his copy, which he had lent to Hooker in 1865, at his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house (see letter from J.  D.   …

To J. D. Hooker   17 November [1867]

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Has finished last revise of his book [Variation].

Is curious to know what JDH thinks of Pangenesis. It is fearfully imperfect, yet satisfying, for it connects large groups of facts by an intelligible thread.

Thomas Woolner is coming [to do a bust of CD].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  17 Nov [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 35–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5680

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  • Hooker next visited Down on 21 December 1867 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The references are to Thomas Woolner and Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Numerous species of balsam ( Impatiens ) are endemic to the Himalayas; for a contemporary list, see J.  D.   Hooker and Thomson 1859, …
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