To Thomas Rivers 5 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on weeping trees; asks for a few weeping elm seeds.
The double peach is in flower; the almond has not flowered; will beg a specimen of fruit later.
Has been unwell.
Tells of Hooker’s admiration for TR’s articles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4023 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To Smith, Elder and Company 5 March [1863]
Summary
Accepts offer of £5 [for remaining stock of Geology of "Beagle"].
Orders postage stamps for son.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.6-10 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.6-7, letter ff.8-9, address envelope f.10)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4025 |
From Julius von Haast 5 March 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.
Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4026 |
From H. B. Dobell 5 March 1863
Summary
At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.
Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4027 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
