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 P. G. King 21 February 1854
Summary
PGK’s letter stirred memories of their old days in the Beagle.
Gives news of his work on cirripedes. Would like to examine Scalpellum papillosum of King from Patagonia if PGK’s father has a duplicate in his collection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Gidley King |
Date: | 21 Feb 1854 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … p. 539 n. 22). It is described in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 154. Britain and France declared …
- … at home and abroad. N.s. 1863–1946. London: Longman & Co. [and others]. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … and Nicholas 1989 , p. 133). CD and Emma Darwin had five sons and two daughters. The …
To John Higgins 25 December 1854
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions health of children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 25 Dec 1854 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1615 |
To Saba Holland 4 December [1854]
Summary
Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Saba Smith; Saba Holland |
Date: | 4 Dec [1854] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1610F |
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 Josiah Wedgwood III 1 May [1854]
Summary
About share transfers, involving JW as a trustee of CD/Emma marriage trust.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 1 May [1854] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1568 |
To Thomas Salt 12 July [1854]
Summary
Thanks for money paid into his account. Has not received interest payment from Lord Powis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 12 July [1854] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577F |
To Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 18 [August 1854]
Summary
Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | 18 [Aug 1854] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1547 |
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 …
letter | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Holland, Saba | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
King, P. G. | (1) |
Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Smith, Saba | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Holland, Saba | (1) |
King, P. G. | (1) |