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From Emma Darwin   [22–3 April 1851]

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Thanks CD for his Monday notes about Anne, which are much better than previous ones.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22–3 Apr 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 210.13: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1410

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  • 1848 ). When Leonard Darwin was born, 15 January 1850, CD himself administered chloroform to Emma ( ibid . , letter to W.  D. Fox, [17 January 1850] , and letter to J.  S. Henslow, …

From Frederick Ransome   7 March 1864

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Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.

Author:  Frederick Ransome
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Mar 1864
Classmark:  DAR 99: 24–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4421

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  • Henslow (see Correspondence vol.  5, letter to J.  S.  Henslow, 8 March [1853] ). The company, founded in 1848, …

From J. D. Hooker   3 February 1849

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Physical description of Sikkim mountains.

Travelling through Kinchin snows.

Transported boulders.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Feb 1849
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1219

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  • … see letter from J.  D. Hooker, 13 October 1848 , n.  8). John Stevens Henslow had held the …

From J. D. Hooker   26 August 1863

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JDH working on the New Zealand flora.

Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.

T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Aug 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 157–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4275

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  • Henslow died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in September 1863 (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 15 September 1863 ). Hooker had borrowed a Wedgwood portrait medallion of Erasmus Darwin (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] ). Thomas Woolner was a sculptor ( DNB ). Jules Emile Planchon was professor of botany at the University of Montpellier; he had been an assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, between 1844 and 1848 ( …
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