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From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866]
Summary
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5078 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
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Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Correspondent
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Date
| 1866 | (2) |
