From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866]
Summary
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
| Author: | Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 and 7? Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Langton, E. C. | (1) |
| Massingberd, E. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Langton, E. C. | (1) |
| Massingberd, E. C. | (1) |
Date
| 1866 | (2) |
