From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
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 J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 [April 1875]
Summary
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9911 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Summary
Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".
Plans to visit Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
| Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
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: 2 hits
To J. D. Hooker 16 [April 1845?]
Summary
Apologises that the house is full this weekend, but next weekend would be good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 [Apr 1845?] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 312) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-857G |
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 11 June [1862] ). Oliver did not publish an advanced text-book on physiological botany. Emily Catherine Darwin , known as Catherine, was 53; on 8 October 1863 she married Charles Langton , widower of Charlotte Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). CD had lent Hooker a Wedgwood medallion of Erasmus Darwin (see letter …
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Langton, E. C. | (1) |
| Massingberd, E. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
