To Susan Darwin [27 November 1844?]
Summary
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1844?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-833 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1844]
Summary
Has just completed Volcanic islands.
Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-736 |
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- … Darwin Library–CUL. CD referred to this generalisation in Notebook B : 200e. Edward Forbes discussed the same subject in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on the day that this letter was written ( E. Forbes 1844 , pp. 324–5). CD had met Alexander von Humboldt at Roderick Impey Murchison’s house on 29 January 1842 (see Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II). For CD’s notes on the meeting with Humboldt see letter to J. D Hooker, [10–11 …
