From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
Matches: 4 hits
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4862 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] . CD refers to Henrietta Emma Darwin . She was on holiday …
- … Wales from 29 May 1865 to 22 June 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and mentioned the …
- … from Thomas Henry Huxley in a letter to Emma Darwin that can be dated 19 June 1865 (DAR …
- … for his frequent bouts of sickness ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to John …
- … Chapman, 7 June 1865 and n. 1. Emma Darwin . …
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 1869] ( Calendar no. 6855)). Henrietta Emma Darwin used a variant, ‘splendicious’, in a …
- … 3). CD began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also …
- … Appendix IV). Emma Darwin , in a letter …
- … to Henrietta (letter from Emma Darwin to …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin, [ 1 June 1865] (DAR 219.9: 28)), wrote: Papa had a good day …
- … went to London on 25 April 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Antirrhinum majus , the …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1865] , and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). He …
- … Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s diary ( DAR 242) records ‘began diet’ …
- … ed. 1975 and Jenkins 1974–80 , 2: 46–50). Emma Darwin cancelled their subscription to The …
- … Gray, 24 July 1865 and nn. 13 and 14. See also Colp 1978 . CD refers to Emma Darwin , …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin , and possibly Elizabeth Darwin . In a letter to J. D. Hooker of …
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … January 1864] ( Correspondence vols. 11 and 12). Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s …
- … P. Jones ed. 1900). On 7 February 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recorded: ‘C. very …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ; …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] ). …
- … sister ( Darwin pedigree ). Emma recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that Elizabeth arrived on …
To John Chapman 7 June 1865
Summary
Reports on progress of ice treatment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 7 June 1865 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4854 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865]
Summary
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 278, 278b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4953 |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
To Edward Walford 22 [January–April 1865?]
Summary
CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Walford |
Date: | 22 [Jan-Apr] 1865 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5508 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n. 5. Emma Darwin . CD refers to ‘On the phenomena of …
- … 1865] , n. 12). From 22 August 1865, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records CD’s weight at …
- … he curtailed complaining of ill health. Emma Darwin continued the letter, repeating the …
- … Henrietta Emma, and Elizabeth Darwin often read to CD (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [ …
- … Darwin, [13 November 1848] ). Anne Elizabeth, CD’s eldest daughter, died in 1851, aged 10 (see Correspondence vol. 5). For more on the effect of her death on CD, see Bowlby 1990 , pp. 291–8, A. Desmond and Moore 1991, pp. 275–87, and R. Keynes 2001 , pp. 180–98. For more on CD’s symptoms brought on by reading, see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix IV. Emma, …
To John Chapman 16 May [1865]
Summary
Asks JC to pay him a professional visit at Down to consider whether the ice treatment would apply to his case. Describes his sickness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 16 May [1865] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4834 |
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 February [1865]
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.
His own health has been especially bad this last week.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4762 |
To George Maw 4 June [1865]
Summary
Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 4 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4853 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865]
Summary
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Dec 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4959 |
To Hermann Kindt 22 November 1865
Summary
Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.
Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 22 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939F |
To Edward Cresy 7 September [1865]
Summary
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 7 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4610 |
letter | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Chapman, John | (2) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Walford, Edward | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Wichura, M. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
Chapman, John | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Walford, Edward | (1) |
Wichura, M. E. | (1) |