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To J. D. Hooker   2 June [1864]

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Requests climbing plants.

Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 June [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 237
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4517

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  • … vol.  6, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 [November 1857] ); at that time, CD was interested …
  • Hooker in February (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] ). CD had obtained seeds of A.  cirrhosa from Kew in 1857 ( …

From Bernard Peirce Brent   18 June 1864

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Has been informed Miss E. Watts retiring from poultry department of the Field and would like to take the post if made available. Asks CD if he would provide a reference for him if necessary.

Has bred and reared a young turtle-dove.

On progress of his lawsuit.

Author:  Bernard Peirce Brent
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 June 1864
Classmark:  DAR 160: 302
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4538

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  • 1857 B287 (Brent v Briggs)). Before taking up residence in Sussex, Brent had lived at Bessels Green in Kent (CD’s Address book (Down House MS)). Brent probably refers to Horace Darwin , who had been seriously ill in the early part of 1863, and who remained in poor health (see Correspondence vol.  11, and this volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [ …