To J. D. Hooker 14 June [1872]
Summary
Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8385 |
To John Tyndall 11 June 1872
Summary
If the Memorial concerning Joseph Dalton Hooker’s dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton was sent to Down, there will be a delay in its return. He has discussed the matter with Mary Catherine Stanley (Lady Derby).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 11 June 1872 |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS JT/1/TYP/8/2654) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8383F |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1872
Summary
Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 114–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8386 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 May 1872
Summary
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8317 |
From M. C. Stanley 4 June 1872
Summary
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8369 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1872
Summary
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 112–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8327 |
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- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1872 and n. 1). William Ewart Gladstone became prime minister at the end of 1868; this parliament was dissolved in January 1874, and Benjamin Disraeli became prime minister ( ODNB ). Robert Lowe , George Frederick Samuel Robinson (the marquess of Ripon), Edward Cardwell , Charles Wood (Viscount Halifax), Henry Austin Bruce , and George Douglas Campbell (the duke of Argyll) were members of Gladstone’s administration. Edward Henry Stanley , …
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Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
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