To J. S. Henslow 14 October [1857]
Summary
JSH’s Myosotis is beginning to sport. Asks whether some features are not odd.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2153 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 August [1857]
Summary
Delighted that JSH is coming to Down. Sends correct train time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2132 |
To J. S. Henslow 25 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2329 |
To J. S. Henslow 18 October [1857]
Summary
Sends details on Myosotis sports. Feels sure he could make any flower in some degree monstrous in four or five generations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2154 |
To John Lubbock 11 August [1857]
Summary
Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.
Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2481 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1857]
Summary
Mrs J. S. Henslow’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2174 |
From J. D. Hooker [27] June 1857
Summary
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27] June 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2114 |
To John Lubbock 12 [August 1857]
Summary
Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 [Aug 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 19 (EH 88206468) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2396 |
To W. D. Fox 30 October [1857]
Summary
Has come to think his brains were not made for thinking – he immediately feels better when at Moor Park.
News of his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2161 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Summary
Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of John Stevens and Harriet Henslow . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] . …
- … Henslow , who died on 20 November 1857. Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . Thuret 1854–5 . CD cited this work in his chapter on hybridism, where he wrote: ‘Mr. Thuret has shown that Fucus serratus could quite easily be fertilised by F. vesiculosus, whereas he never once could effect, after repeated trials, the reciprocal cross. ’ ( Natural selection , p. 413). See letter from J. …
From J. D. Hooker [2 December 1857]
Summary
News of Mrs Henslow’s death.
Studying Impatiens, which bears on CD’s problems. Though genus is endemic to India, with over 100 species, CD will be glad to know they do not run into one another.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 178–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2178 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857]
Summary
Return of books.
JDH coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2157 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [after 28 February 1857]
Summary
Reports that he fertilised a single pale red carnation with the pollen of a crimson Spanish pink, and a Spanish pink with the pollen of the same carnation. He got seed from both crosses and raised many seedlings. There was no difference between the seedlings from reciprocal crosses, not one plant set a single seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [after 28 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 7 March 1857, p. 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2061 |
CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | July 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Henslow had visited Down on 13 August (see letter to John Lubbock, 12 [August 1857] ). The Swedish botanist Nils Johan Andersson was then working at Kew (see letter to J. …
- … Henslow 1835 . See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to Asa Gray, 8 June [1855] , and letter from H. C. Watson, 13 August 1855 . Babington 1851 . CD’s calculations are in DAR 16.1: 143, 160 and DAR 16.2: 231a–7. J. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
