To J. D. Hooker [4 December 1844]
Summary
Change in train times.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [4 Dec 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 December [1844]
Summary
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797F |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [December 1844]
Summary
Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 [Dec 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-800 |
To W. D. Fox 20 December [1844]
Summary
Tells of his father’s ill health.
Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 20 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-801 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1844]
Summary
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 25 December [1844]
Summary
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803A |
To Susan Darwin [27 November 1844?]
Summary
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1844?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-833 |
To Emma Darwin [3 June 1844]
Summary
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-726 |
To Julian Jackson 23 May [1844]
Summary
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 23 May [1844] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-751 |
To Emma Darwin 5 July 1844
Summary
Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1844 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-761 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III and E. A. Darwin 25 July 1844
Summary
Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III; Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July 1844 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-766 |
To Leonard Jenyns 12 October [1844]
Summary
Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1844] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-782 |
To Emma Darwin [20 or 27 October 1844]
Summary
Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | Emma Darwin 2: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-783 |
To Leonard Jenyns 25 [November 1844]
Summary
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1844] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-793 |
| letter | (74) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Denny, Henry | (7) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (3) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Forbes, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Jackson, Julian | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
| Kemp, William | (1) |
| Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Morlot, C. A. | (3) |
| Royal Geographical Society | (2) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
| Wicksted, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Denny, Henry | (7) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
