To J. D. Hooker 15 [January 1866]
Summary
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4976 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [January 1866]
Summary
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4981 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |
