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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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  • … this letter and the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 October 1877 . Hooker had reported his …
  • Hooker’s daughter Harriet Anne in June, was about to leave for a delayed honeymoon (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877
  • … United States. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 and n. 3. William Erasmus …

To C. E. Norton   25 October 1877

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CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Eliot Norton
Date:  25 Oct 1877
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11208

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  • … s sister-in-law (see letter from J, D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 and n. 2). James Russell …

From J. D. Hooker   19 October 1877

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JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Oct 1877
Classmark:  DAR 104: 95–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11190

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  • J. D. Hooker and Gray 1880 . Richard Buckley Litchfield had developed acute appendicitis while travelling in Switzerland in September 1877 (see letter

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   [21 October 1877]

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Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Oct 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 209.14: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11161

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  • Hooker on 23 June 1877; they had cut short their honeymoon because of J. D. Hooker’s departure for America. On 22 October, they departed for the remainder of their honeymoon (see letter

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   11 October [1877]

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Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  11 Oct [1877]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11178

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  • Hooker were busy organising their collections before Hooker’s departure for England, as they intended to prepare a survey of the vegetation of the Rocky Mountains (J. D. Hooker and Gray 1880 ); they had botanised together in the region over the summer (see letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 ). …

From Francis Darwin   [28 October 1877?]

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FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Oct 1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11302F

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