From John Tyndall 9 April [1873]
Summary
Is convinced that the "brotherly spirit of the transaction" will cause Huxley not to raise objections.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8852 |
From John Scott 29 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4578 |
From John Scott 20 June [1864]
Summary
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4541 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 August 1864]
Summary
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 232–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4590 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 July 1864]
Summary
The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4584 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Summary
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
Macrae, James (1791/2–1830)
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- … letter from James McRae to W. J. Hooker, 14 July 1829 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Directors’ Correspondence 52/43) Lewis 1913 Bibliography Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis. Lewis, John …
From W. S. Dallas 28 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for second issue of Variation.
Is glad CD is satisfied with his translation of Piderit.
Will not start on Müller [Für Darwin] until CD has communicated with the author.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5955 |
From John Tyndall 28 December 1874
Summary
JT had not known Lady Lubbock was ill. Will try to persuade her [to change physicians]. Agrees Andrew Clark is best.
Hooker has survived his crisis [death of his wife].
St G. J. Mivart’s act is a natural outflow of his character.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9787 |
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- … letter to John Tyndall, 27 December 1874 ; CD was concerned about Ellen Frances Lubbock’s health. She probably wanted to attend the lecture of her husband, John Lubbock , on English wild flowers at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 22 January 1875 ( Lubbock 1875a ). Tyndall also refers to William and Eliza Taylor …
From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]
Summary
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4529 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
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To H. H. Higgins 18 August [1880]
Summary
Thanks HHH for essay.
Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hugh Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (HG12/8/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12691 |
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- … letter from Higgins on Nassa , a genus of sea snails, has not been found. The essay on Nassa is probably Marrat 1880 ; a copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. It was published in the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool , of which Higgins was vice-president. CD had given duplicates of his Cirripedia type-specimens to George Brettingham Sowerby Jr ; these were later transferred to John Ellor Taylor ’ …
From Asa Gray 3 August 1871
Summary
AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7894 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1861]
Summary
Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3301 |
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- … Taylor. Kurr, Johann Gottlob von. 1833. Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen: auf eigene Beobachtungen und Versuche gegründet. Stuttgart: Henneschen Buchhandlung. Lindley, John. 1853. The vegetable kingdom; or, the structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. 3d edition with corrections and additional genera. London: Bradbury & Evans. ML : More letters …
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Summary
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
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- … Taylor eds. 1988, p. 689). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . In Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1830–3 ), Lyell had published an important critique of the then current theories of transmutation. Hooker refers to John Murray , publisher of C. Lyell 1863a , and to Richard Owen’s letter, …
From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881]
Summary
Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.
The text on EAD’s gravestone.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.3: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13400F |
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- … letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 October [1881] (DAR 219.9: 273)). F. : father, i.e. CD. Aunt F. : Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . The particular edition of John Milton ’s works has not been identified. Elizabeth Pearce . An entry in CD’s Account book–cash accounts (Down House MS) records a payment of £16 11 s. 3 d. to ‘Taylors …
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