From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866]
Summary
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5078 |
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: 4 hits
- … E. C. Langton, E. C. Massingberd, E. C. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
- … 1). Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , known as Elizabeth, was Emma Darwin’s sister and Catherine’ …
- … Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd/Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton/Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd unstated [6 and 7? Jan 1866] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , p. 272). She had discussed her poor health and inability to pay social visits in a letter to Henrietta Emma Darwin …
To Thomas Gold Appleton 2 March [1866]
Summary
The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5427 |
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 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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Corbet . Emma Darwin . The reference is to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood . Susan Elizabeth …
- … Wedgwood II and his wife, Elizabeth (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , p. 175). Anne lived at Linley Wood until she married in 1817 and resumed residence there with her three unmarried daughters in 1860 ( DNB ). Emma Darwin …
From W. D. Fox 20 August [1866]
Summary
Is looking for CD’s book [Variation]; does not know whether it is yet published.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5195 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1866]
Summary
Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.
W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5200 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5197 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 February [1866]
Summary
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B40–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5010 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1866
Summary
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4978 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Caldwell, Anne | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
