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From M. T. Masters   September 1865

Summary

He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 171: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4886

From E. A. Darwin   1 September [1865]

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Summary

Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4889

From Edward Cresy   10 September 1865

Summary

Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].

Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 161: 245
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4892

From A. R. Wallace   18 September 1865

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Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].

Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 106: B25–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4894

From Jeffries Wyman   22 September 1865

Summary

Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.

Author:  Jeffries Wyman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 181: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4897

From J. D. Hooker   [26 September 1865]

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On his reading: George Eliot,

T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.

Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.

His grief over loss of father and child.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Sept 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 34–6a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4899

From Julius von Haast   27 September 1865

Summary

Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.

Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.

Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.

Author:  John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Sept 1865
Classmark:  DAR 166: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4900

From F. H. Hooker   6 September [1865]

Summary

They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.

Author:  Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 239–40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4890

From F. H. Hooker   13 September [1865]

Summary

J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;

he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.

Author:  Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 235–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4893

From F. H. Hooker   22 September [1865]

Summary

J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.

Author:  Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 237–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4898