To J. D. Hooker 29 [May 1854]
Summary
CD "lectures" JDH on taking care of his health.
CD’s pleasure in London trip.
CD and Emma have taken season tickets to Crystal Palace.
Edward Forbes’s "Introductory Lecture" is the best CD ever read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [May 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1575 |
Matches: 4 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 …
- … Sydenham, Kent, took place on 10 June 1854. Emma Darwin noted the opening in her diary on …
- … filling the enormous building. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 271). The Duke of Wellington’s …
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1854]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Nov [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1597 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 or 16 February 1854]
Summary
Has received JDH’s book [Himalayan journals (1854)]. Is very gratified by the dedication to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 or 16] Feb 1854 |
Classmark: | Oliver N. Hooker (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1552F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1854’ ( Hooker 1854 , 1: [v]). Emma Darwin . CD may refer to a fold-out lithograph, ‘Tibet …
- … Emma says she feels a good share of the honour, & she desires me to give her best love to M rs . Hooker. I wish I felt more worthy of the honour, but I am so far worthy, that I am & have long been, my dear Hooker, your very affectionate friend | C. Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma has begun your book. — We here really have kept the Books you lent us for a most unreasonable time, but I hope soon to finish the Salt Lake, & Miss Thorley the Amazons. Certainly it was a most valuable loan of Books. Farewell, my dear Hooker, I hope to feel in the course of 2 or 3 months, when my cirripedes are all printed off, my shoulders light, like yours must now feel. Farewell | Your’s affectionly | C. Darwin …
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