From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Summary
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
| Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Charles Lyell, 1st baronet Harry Calvert, 2d baronet/Harry Verney, 2d baronet Peter John Locke King Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke Joseph Kay Edward France Percival Edward Horsman Erasmus Alvey Darwin Hensleigh Wedgwood …
- … Lyell, Charles Calvert, Harry Verney, Harry King, P. J. L. Yorke, H. G. R. Kay, Joseph Percival, E. F. Horsman, Edward Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Hensleigh …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 19 November 1867]
Summary
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 19 Nov 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5334 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 August [1864]
Summary
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4601 |
To J. M. Rodwell 5 November [1860]
Summary
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2976 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell on 11 December 1866 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1866] and n. 5). He refers to William Spottiswoode and his wife, William Edward Hartpole Lecky , Thomas Henry Huxley , Benjamin Collins Brodie, Philothea Margaret Brodie , William Rathbone Greg , and Hensleigh Wedgwood . …
To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
Summary
Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hensleigh Wedgwood defended the view that the original roots of language derived from the imitation of natural sounds (H. Wedgwood 1859–65, 1: iii–xviii). Farrar cited many examples from Wedgwood’s Dictionary that supported the imitative theory of language against Max Müller’s criticisms (see, for example, Farrar 1865 , p. 132). For CD’s favourable assessment of Wedgwood’s Dictionary , see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
