To H. B. Jones [23 April 1866?]
Summary
Had hoped to call, but cannot do so comfortably, so will HBJ call on CD instead, for a consultation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1866?] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (Bence Jones autograph letter file) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5064A |
Matches: 3 hits
- … B. Jones, 3 January [1866] and the letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] . …
- … B. Jones? ], 13 April [1866] . On CD’s health, see the letter to H. …
- … Jones on a Monday, coinciding with a visit by CD to London. CD was in London from 21 April to 1 May 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS) record a payment to Jones on 23 April 1866, a Monday. See letter to [H. …
To H. B. Jones 3 August [1870]
Summary
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293A |
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
Matches: 2 hits
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
To John Lubbock 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5172 |
From Anne Marsh-Caldwell 27 November [1866]
Summary
Writing for Mr Corbet, she asks what diet has helped in the treatment of CD’s illness.
| Author: | Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5286 |
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
From H. B. Jones 10 February [1866]
Summary
Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5003 |
From W. D. Fox 1 February [1867]
Summary
Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5388 |
To George Bentham 1 October 1866
Summary
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5225 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [January 1866]
Summary
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4981 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 22 January [1866]
Summary
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4983 |
To John Tyndall 25 April [1873]
Summary
Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8877 |
To G. H. Darwin 22 January 1873
Summary
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8747 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865]
Summary
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4942 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 16 January [1866]
Summary
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977 |
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 T. H. Huxley 27 January [1875]
Summary
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A48–53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9831 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
