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 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 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 12), CD included some remarks by Emma Darwin on Huxley’s recently published Lectures …
- … Emma’s sense of the word & which I have had reported— But when am I to work them up? Twenty four Hunterian Lectures loom between me & Easter— I am dying to get out the second volume of the book that is not a book but in vain. I trust you are better though the last news I had of you from Lubbock was not so encouraging as I could have wished— With best wishes & remembrances to M rs Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker [27 January 1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker will not be able to visit CD because of ill health.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 231–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4879 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Walford, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Walford, Edward | (1) |
