To Henry Johnson 24 September 1879
Summary
Sends the requested signature,
with sympathy for HHJ’s state of health [see 12236].
Reports that HJ’s experiments on tension of parts are often quoted in German works and periodicals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12236A |
To Henry Johnson 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR471) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12626 |
To Henry Johnson 14 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for information on the slope of ground at Worcester.
CD’s passion now is worms.
Sends Movement in plants. While correcting proof, CD remembered an old article by HHJ, which he regrets not including.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12816 |
To Henry Johnson 18 November 1880
Summary
Is obliged for the clear answers to his queries.
Regrets that his health will not permit a visit to Wroxeter.
Will sign his name on next page, but "what geese people are about autographs".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12827A |
To Henry Johnson 28 December [1880]
Summary
The report that CD is seriously ill is false, but the kind letters that it produced have done a good turn. [See 12943.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12951A |
To Henry Johnson 25 April [1871?]
Summary
Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871?] |
| Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7718 |
To Henry Johnson 23 December 1871
Summary
Is unable to accept invitation to Shrewsbury. Is grateful for offer of assistance at Wroxeter.
The weight of dry earth cast up by worms is 161/10 tons per acre annually.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118A |
To Henry Johnson 2 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for notes on worm-castings. Amount of ammonia surprises CD. David Forbes asserts that published analysis of carbon in vegetable matter valueless. Suspects that worms search for food and do not blindly swallow earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 2 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8306 |
From Henry Johnson 22 September [1879]
Summary
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12236 |
From Henry Johnson 26 September [1879]
Summary
Thanks CD for his autograph.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12238 |
From Henry Johnson 12 January [1872?]
Summary
Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419 |
From Henry Johnson 27 December [1880]
Summary
Article in Shrewsbury newspaper makes him worry about CD’s health.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12943 |
From Henry Johnson 15 October [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13403 |
From Henry Johnson 30 September 1862
Summary
HHJ’s paper ["On the distorted skulls found at Wroxeter (Salop)", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 12 (1862–3): 149–50].
He has been approached about becoming F.R.S., but would like to know how expensive it would be.
Requests a photograph.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3743 |
From Henry Johnson 8 October 1862
Summary
Doubts he has a chance of being elected F.R.S. because he is 58.
Will send a skull.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3754 |
From Henry Johnson 31 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge
and CD’s world-wide reputation.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (8) |
