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To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Summary
CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 June [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1858]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2298 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
