From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 19 November 1867]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [before 19 Nov 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5334 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] ). Erasmus usually sent payments for tithes to CD in November or early December. No enclosure to this letter has been found. CD recorded receipt of cheques for tithes from Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus on 19 November 1867 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). For more on CD’s and Emma’ …
To J. D. Hooker 16 [April 1845?]
Summary
Apologises that the house is full this weekend, but next weekend would be good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Apr 1845?] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 312) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-857G |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859]
Summary
Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2446 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
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- … Hooker, CD received a cart-load of plants for his hothouse from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] and [21 February 1863] ). CD also refers to Hooker’s interest in collecting Wedgwood ware (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] and n. 8). Henrietta Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
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- … Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, in Sussex. See ‘Journal’ (Appendix II). Charlotte Langton , Emma’s other sister, also lived in Hartfield, Sussex. William Wallis was the surgeon of Hartfield and an orchid collector. He had assisted CD in his study of orchids and of the sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) when the Darwins visited Hartfield in July 1860. See letters to J. D. Hooker, …
To E. P. Wright 28 February [1879]
Summary
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 28 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11908 |
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
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- … Emma Darwin . Meteyard refers either to the second volume of her life of Josiah Wedgwood I ( Meteyard 1865–6 ), which was published in September 1866 ( Publishers’ Circular 1866), or to Meteyard 1871 (see n. 5, below). See also letter from Eliza Meteyard, 25 April 1865 . CD had sent the letters in November 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
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- … Hooker, 27 [November 1863] . CD refers to his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin , who lived at The Mount, Shrewsbury, and to some Wedgwood vases that she had sent to Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] , [22–3 November 1863] , and 27 [November 1863] ). Hooker’s note has not been found. According to Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
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- … Hooker had already discussed these books (see letters to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 5, and [29 July 1865] and nn. 13 and 15). The reference is to Frances Wedgwood (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 10). CD had evidently abandoned John Chapman’s ice treatment (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865] , and letter from Charles and Emma …
To A. R. Wallace [12–17] March [1867]
Summary
Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.
Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.
Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [12–17] Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5440 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1866
Summary
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4978 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwin family visited Hartfield Grove, Hartfield, Sussex, and Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, the homes of Charles Langton and Joshiah Wedgwood III, respectively, from 27 April to 13 May 1863. Caroline Sarah Wedgwood was CD’s sister and Fox’s second cousin. CD had recently had a recurrence of eczema; during eczema attacks, CD’s general health improved (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
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Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
Darwin, Emma | (4) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |