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To J. D. Hooker   8 November [1877]

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CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.

CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.

Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 461–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11229

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  • … Hooker, 19 October 1877 ). Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton , the sister of Sara and Theodora, …
  • 1877 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . CD discussed the movement of the cotyledons in Cycas pectinata in Movement in plants . Francis Darwin was assisting him with his work. William Erasmus Darwin was engaged to Sara Sedgwick . …

To J. D. Hooker   6 November [1877]

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Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.

Son William is to be married 28 November.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 459–60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11226

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  • 1877] (DAR 219.9: 155); Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 227). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), he and his wife, Henrietta Emma Litchfield , arrived at Down on Thursday 8 November. William married Sara Sedgwick

To J. D. Hooker   21 October [1877]

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Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 457–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11195

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  • … 19 October 1877 and n. 3. William Erasmus Darwin and Sara Sedgwick had become engaged at …
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