To J. D. Hooker [19 July 1847]
Summary
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [19 July 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1101 |
To Susan Darwin [1 April 1838]
Summary
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-407 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , Mrs Hensleigh Wedgwood . Harriet Martineau’s impression of CD was altogether complimentary. In her autobiography, reminiscing about ‘eminent men who were not vain’, she writes of ‘the simple, childlike, painstaking, effective Charles Darwin , who established himself presently at the head of living English naturalists’ ( Martineau 1877 , 1: 355). See letter to J. S. Henslow, [ …
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. S. Henslow, in Hitcham (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 428 n. 1). Hooker read a paper on Arctic plants at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 21 June 1860. In it he applied CD’s theory of plant migrations during a former cold period to explain existing distribution patterns. The paper was published in 1862 ( Hooker 1862 ). Henrietta Emma Darwin was staying in London at the home of her aunt and uncle, Frances Mackintosh and Hensleigh Wedgwood ( …
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
