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From J. D. Hooker   1 October 1863

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Sorrow at loss of his daughter.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Oct 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 160–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4317

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  • 1839 and 1843 ( DNB ). Miss Hawthorn has not been identified. She may be Grace Agnew Hawthorn , sister of Sarah Hawthorn , who married Leonard Jenyns

From Leonard Jenyns   [before 18 April 1858]

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[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.

Author:  Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 18 Apr 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 45: 20–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2250

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  • Leonard Jenyns, 9 April [1858] ). The ‘paper’ is Jenyns 1856 . Gould 1837b . Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1840 . Carpenter 1854 . CD’s annotated copy of this work is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Jenyns refers to an earlier edition. Yarrell 1839– …

From J. D. Hooker   19 [June 1862]

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Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.

Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3611

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  • Leonard Jenyns married Sarah Hawthorn of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, on 24 June 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. 13 (1862): 222). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 11 June [1862] , n.  6. See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . The polar explorer, James Clark Ross , died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on 3  April 1862; Hooker had been assistant surgeon on Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839– …
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