From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Summary
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
To Edward Blyth [19 February 1867]
Summary
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5407 |
From Cicely Mary Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 9 February [1868]
Summary
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5855 |
To J. D. Hooker [12] May [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12] May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5532 |
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 10 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 3 February 1867?]
Summary
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B122–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5335 |
To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 December 1867
Summary
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5724 |
From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867
Summary
Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.
| Author: | Thomas Woolner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5707 |
To Charles Lyell 31 October [1867]
Summary
Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5659 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Summary
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 27 [March 1867]
Summary
Thanks WED for a present.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].
Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5466 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 March [1867]
Summary
Suggests change in sentence of JDH’s "Insular floras" to make meaning clear.
Naudin’s letter about hybrids.
Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 13f–g |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5451 |
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
To John Smith 26 December [1867]
Summary
CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Smith |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5740 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 March 1867
Summary
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 147–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5449 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker [6 April 1867]
Summary
JDH has left for Paris with Thomas Thomson.
Baby is better.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5492 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
