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To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1858]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2303 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1858]
Summary
Regards from Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2310 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Summary
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 [July 1858]
Summary
Six children have died of scarlet fever in Down village.
Writing abstract is amusing and improving work. Thanks JDH and Lyell for setting him to it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2314 |
