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From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 October 1881
Summary
On plants CD requested.
Frank should work on Dischidia.
Work on palms.
Overloaded with reading.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 170–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13435 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1881
Summary
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13557 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his endowment of new Steudel’s Nomenclator [later to become Index Kewensis].
K. White’s gruesome ballad "Gondoline" frightened JDH as a child.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13577 |
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| letter | (25) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
