From E. A. Darwin 7 May [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4489 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4502 |
From William Bennett 25 May 1864
Summary
Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.
| Author: | William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4509 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Willis 1973 ). Henry Lettington’s visit is recorded in a letter from Emma Darwin to …
- … to her daughter Etty, or Henrietta Emma Darwin . ‘Duberry’ was probably Mark Duberry , a …
- … Darwin, [3 June 1864] , in DAR 219.1: 82: Lettington went the other day to the old quaker gent near Betchworth for Leersia. A very nice old vegetarian & Tee total quaker & sent Etty the rarest English fern. Neither Lett. nor Duberry had the sense to take umbrella or great coat so they were some hours in that cold N.E. rain & caught a cold— Emma …
From W. D. Fox 5 [May 1864]
Summary
Would like to come to Down to visit.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4484 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864]
Summary
Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A83–6, A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4500 |
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bennett, William | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bennett, William | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
