From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866]
Summary
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5078 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, J. D. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866] …
- … DAR 102: 67 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [21 Mar 1866] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wednesday after 19 March was 21 March. Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Frances …
- … Hooker and J. D. Hooker visited Down in June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Hooker arrived at Down on Saturday 24 March 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866]
Summary
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
| Author: | Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 and 7? Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … E. C. Langton, E. C. Massingberd, E. C. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
- … Massingberd unstated [6 and 7? Jan 1866] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin …
- … From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866] …
- … Wedgwood , known as Elizabeth, was Emma Darwin’s sister and Catherine’s cousin ( Freeman …
- … pay social visits in a letter to Henrietta Emma Darwin of [November 1865] (DAR 219.8: 3). …
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [14–21 April 1866]
Summary
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [14–21 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5074 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Henrietta Emma Darwin [14–21 April 1866] …
- … Robert Darwin unstated [14–21 Apr 1866] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … during her stay in France ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [6 April 1866] (DAR …
- … 1866 (DAR 245: 270)). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Henrietta went abroad on …
- … is established by the reference to Emma Darwin’s and CD’s poor health (see n. 8, below), …
- … from H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866]. Emma Darwin and CD both had influenza during …
- … the second and third weeks of April; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD had a …
- … companions were unwell for much of April ( Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [6 April 1866] ( …
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to H. E. Darwin [28 July? 1866]
Summary
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [28 July? 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5204 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Frances Lubbock unstated [28 July? 1866] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … are conjectured by the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and by the reference to …
- … copies of Origin (see nn. 2 and 3, below). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD …
- … Emma also noted that she attended a ‘fete at High Elms’ (the Lubbock family home) on 28 July. The fourth edition of Origin was printed by mid-July 1866 (see letter to John Murray, 15 July [1866] ), but CD’s publisher, John Murray , had recently informed CD that he wished to delay publication until November ( letter from John Murray, 18 July [1866] ). Norman’s father, George Warde Norman , was a good friend of the Darwin …
From H. E. Darwin [c. 10 May 1866]
Summary
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 10 May 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5075 |
From Mary Lubbock to H. E. Darwin [8 May 1866 – 31 August 1871]
Summary
Age at which babies first shed tears.
| Author: | Frances Mary (Mary) Turton; Frances Mary (Mary) Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [8 May 1866 – 31 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5332 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Frances Harriet Hooker , visited from 23 to 29 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866] and …
- … 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Royal Society of London on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The event is …
- … 5 May 1866, pp. 597–8. According to Emma Darwin , many of CD’s old friends did not …
- … of them, as his beard alters him so’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 185). Hooker refers to John …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] , …
From Frances Harriet Hooker 1 November [1866]
Summary
Mentions a note in Notes and Queries [3d ser. 10 (1866): 343–4] which refers to A sketch of the life and works of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 242–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5263 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1866]
Summary
Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 4 December 1866 ). There is no mention of the visit in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and …
- … no record of whether Henrietta Emma Darwin accompanied CD. Frances Harriet Hooker . …
- … Emma thinks she will not be able to come, perhaps Henrietta will. — We will go to M rs Hooker’s house, & if you are not there will go on to Herbarium, after staying a few minutes with M rs Hooker, then a walk in the garden & home again Ever yours | C. Darwin …
From J. T. Moggridge 21 May [1866]
Summary
Sends plants from France.
J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.
JTM seeks invitation to Down.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5096 |
From Charles John Robinson [1866?]
Summary
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
| Author: | Charles John Robinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4966 |
From Anne Marsh-Caldwell 27 November [1866]
Summary
Writing for Mr Corbet, she asks what diet has helped in the treatment of CD’s illness.
| Author: | Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5286 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Fox, 24 August [1866] . Eleanor Corbet . Emma Darwin . The reference is to Sarah Elizabeth …
- … with her three unmarried daughters in 1860 ( DNB ). Emma Darwin referred to the Caldwells …
- … as ‘old friends’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [28 November 1881] (DAR …
- … heartily rejoice Kindest love to Emma (M rs . Darwin) I mean— I did so grieve to lose my …
From W. E. Darwin [23 June 1866]
Summary
Ovules of males of two forms [of Rhamnus catharticus?] are abortive and both females have incomplete stamens.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4962 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Summary
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
From William Robert Grove 26 April 1866
Summary
Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.
| Author: | William Robert Grove |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5068 |
To Thomas Gold Appleton 2 March [1866]
Summary
The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5427 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for 4th ed. of Origin.
What a basting CD gives "our mutual friend" [Owen].
Glad he argrees with THH on Jamaica affair [Gov. Eyre and the "rebellion"].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5275 |
From J. E. Gray 13 April 1866
Summary
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5056 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 April 1866]
Summary
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5071 |
From George Warde Norman 20 September 1866
Summary
Sends a paper, by the wife of the local curate, on the habits of animals.
| Author: | George Warde Norman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5215 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (97) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (5) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (4) |
