To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1872]
Summary
CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.
The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8449 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 August [1872]
Summary
Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8491 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1872]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of cheque.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.424) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8494 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 August 1872
Summary
Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].
Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8492 |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |