From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864] …
- … 1863] ). See also letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] and n. 4. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 March 1864 ). Hooker …
- … pp. 18 and 24 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). Letter from Daniel Oliver, 12 March 1864 . CD felt that his general health improved during eczema attacks (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864] …
- … Freeman 1978 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 5 and 6. Frances …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 15. Godfrey Wedgwood was a …
- … 1980 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 2. Rhododendron …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864] , and by the references to the hot weather and the visit from Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (see nn. 3 and 4, below). CD had been interested in observing the dimorphic Menyanthes trifoliata (buckbean or marsh trefoil); in 1862, he acquired the aquatic plant from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, but its seeds never germinated (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1864–7 , 2: 151–2). CD had kept Hooker informed about his recent crossing experiments on peloric and common Antirrhinum majus as well as sending him flower specimens (see letter to J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] , where he mentions his work on snapdragons). Daniel Oliver was an editor of phanerogamic botany for the Natural History Review. He often referred German and French language publications on botanical topics to CD (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 June 1864 ). …
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
