To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853]
Summary
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Oct 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1529 |
To J. D. Dana 10 October [1853]
Summary
Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]
and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 10 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1534 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [October 1853]
Summary
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Oct 1853] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1535 |
To J. W. Lubbock 11 October [1853]
Summary
Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 11 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1536 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 October [1853]
Summary
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 13 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1537 |
To Syms Covington 21 October 1853
Summary
Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 21 Oct 1853 |
Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1538 |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |