From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 215 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [7 Dec 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). See n. 2, …
- … below. In 1863, 7 December was a Monday. Emma Darwin’s diary entries on 5 and 6 December …
- … and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests …
- … of Cruelty to Animals (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] , …
- … in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Emma Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Hooker, J. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863] …
- … DAR 115: 214 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 26 Dec [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Darwin . Frances Harriet Hooker . President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which came into effect on 1 January 1863, freed the slaves in those states in rebellion against the Union. The Union forces effectively became armies of liberation ( McPherson 1988 , pp. 557–8). The Times had maintained a hostile tone towards the Union cause in its coverage of the American Civil War. CD and Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863]
Summary
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4274 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … were married on 8 October 1863 ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). There is no evidence that …
- … rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 17: 989–1008. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Worcestershire, on 3 September 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and n. 2, below). …
- … returning to Down on 14 October 1863. Emma Darwin travelled there in advance, arriving on …
- … to secure lodgings for the family ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). During his stay, CD …
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … n. 4). See also letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] and n. 5. …
- … 13 November 1863] and n. 6). The invitation to Henrietta Emma Darwin has not been traced. …
- … D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] . See Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for her daily record of …
- … November [1863] , letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] , and n. …
- … has not been found but see letter from Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew, 21 November [1863] …
- … 5 November 1863). See letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] . CD …
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Following the interest …
- … 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Hooker had asked …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. CD refers to …
- … in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Emma Darwin wrote in her diary (DAR 242) ‘good’ for …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … note has not been found. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had been vomiting …
- … 9 November [1863] , letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] , and …
- … 31 October 1863 , and letter from Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton, 4 November [1863] . See …
- … Charles Waring Darwin’s fatal attack of scarlet fever and Henrietta Emma ’s attack of …
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 October 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [30 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4324 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 or 3 November 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 3] Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 173–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4325 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [November 1863]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4335 |
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