To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … December 1856. According to Henrietta Emma Darwin , ‘The poor little baby was born without …
- … He had never learnt to walk or talk. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 162). Henrietta probably …
- … Emma behaved nobly & how she stood it all I cannot conceive. It was wonderful relief, when she could let her feelings break forth— God Bless you. — You shall hear soon as soon as I can think Yours affectionately | C. Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] and n. 5. Emma Darwin’s brother Josiah Wedgwood III and his …
- … CD’s sister, arrived with their family at Down on 15 January 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
- … 30 September [1857] , and n. 13). Emma Darwin recorded Leonard’s fluctuating ill health …
- … 13, was attending Clapham Grammar School. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that ‘G. went …
- … to school’ on 1 February 1858. Henrietta Emma Darwin , aged 15, had suffered poor health …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1858]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 258 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2386 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1858]
Summary
Sends MS on large and small genera.
Observed slave-making ants at Moor Park.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 May [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2269 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1858]
Summary
CD declines to write Lyell éloge [for Copley Medal] because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2369 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1858]
Summary
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Aug 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2313 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]
Summary
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2335 |
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