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To J. D. Hooker   [23 November 1866]

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Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [23 Nov 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 306
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5284

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  • … 4 December 1866 ). There is no mention of the visit in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and …
  • … no record of whether Henrietta Emma Darwin accompanied CD. Frances Harriet Hooker . …
  • Emma thinks she will not be able to come, perhaps Henrietta will. — We will go to M rs Hooker’s house, & if you are not there will go on to Herbarium, after staying a few minutes with M rs Hooker, then a walk in the garden & home again Ever yours | C.  Darwin

To J. D. Hooker   20 November [1866]

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Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".

Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 305
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5281

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  • … London ( Freeman 1978 ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins went to …
  • … returned on 29 November. CD refers to Emma Darwin and Frances Harriet Hooker . Hooker …

To J. D. Hooker   1 November [1866]

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Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.

Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 304
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5262

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  • … account of that visit, Henrietta Emma Darwin told her brother George Howard Darwin that …

From J. D. Hooker   [22 November 1866]

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His views on the Eyre controversy.

Went to Shrewsbury (for sale of Susan’s effects), hoping to buy some Wedgwood medallions, but they had been bought.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Nov 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 112–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5283

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  • … Hooker, [23 November 1866] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD was in London …
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