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To J. D. Hooker   14 May [1861]

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Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3149

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  • … long illness on 16 May 1861. Emma and Henrietta Emma Darwin went to London on 8 May 1861  …
  • … and returned to Down on 17 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 9  …

To J. D. Hooker   14 [April 1861]

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CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 [Apr 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3119

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  • … 1861] and n.  1. CD went to London on Tuesday, 16 April 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …

To J. D. Hooker   11 March [1861]

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Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3085

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  • … Huxley ed.   1900, 1: 225). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Thomas Henry Huxley visited …
  • … to Down on Sunday, 17 March 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For the deferral of Carpenter’s …

To J. D. Hooker   23 [April 1861]

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Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 [Apr 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3125

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  • … on Thursday, 18 April. On 19 April, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary: ‘Ch.  poorly in …

To J. D. Hooker   14 November [1861]

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Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 130
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3318

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  • Emma Darwin recorded in her diary on 13 November 1861: ‘Charles in bed   cold &c’. Hooker’ …

To J. D. Hooker   13 July [1861]

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Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.

On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 July [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3207

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  • … Darwins in Torquay on 9 July 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letters to J.  D.  Hooker, …

To J. D. Hooker   [30 and 31 December 1861]

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Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 and 31 Dec 1861
Classmark:  DAR 115: 83a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3576

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  • … 29 December 1861] , CD annotations). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary on 30 December …

To J. D. Hooker   18 [May 1861]

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Henslow’s death.

What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Beaton not to be trusted.

CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 [May 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3152

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  • … 2: 343, 344. According to her diary, Emma Darwin visited Mary Elizabeth Lyell on 13 May  …

To J. D. Hooker   24 September [1861]

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CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].

Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 Sept [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3263

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  • … were rubbing cod-liver oil into Henrietta Emma Darwin’s skin in the hope that it would …

To J. D. Hooker   8 [February 1861]

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Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 [Feb 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3060

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  • … Williams had been treating Henrietta Emma Darwin throughout her illness of the past year. …
  • Emma & I would be much obliged for a little more information. How did you hear of it? Is evidence pretty good of benefit derived from rubbing in. As it would be a rather nasty proceeding for Etty to be thus basted, we should begin with more confidence, if we knew more. Will you take trouble to send us a line. — Yours affect— | C.  Darwin

To J. D. Hooker   17 [July 1861]

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Orchids from Kew.

JDH’s income problems.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  17 [July 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3210

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  • … Hooker had recommended that Henrietta Emma Darwin be rubbed several times a day with cod- …

To J. D. Hooker   13 [August 1861]

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Personal regards.

William Darwin will make a botanist.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 [Aug 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 110
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3231

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  • … Hooker had suggested might help Henrietta Emma Darwin recuperate from the after-effects of …

To J. D. Hooker   30 August [1861]

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Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 Aug [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3238

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  • … in the hope of improving Henrietta Emma Darwin’s poor health. The British Association for …

To J. D. Hooker   18 March [1861]

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Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 90
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3091

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  • … topic during Hooker’s recent visit to Down. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Hooker …

To J. D. Hooker   20 [February 1861]

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Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

Ill health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 [Feb 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3065

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  • … 8 [February 1861] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary, CD went to London on 21 February  …

To J. D. Hooker   15 January [1861]

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CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.

H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Jan [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3047

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  • … and Brian Harvey Hodgson. Henrietta Emma Darwin was recuperating slowly after having …

To J. D. Hooker   19 June [1861]

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CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 June [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3190

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  • … Jackson 1906 , p.  188). Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill for over a year. To help her …

To J. D. Hooker   28 September [1861]

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Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.

Orchids.

Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Sept [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3268

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  • … Gray , 25 April [1860]. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, George Brettingham Sowerby Jr …
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