To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 31 January [1868]
Summary
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2670 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1868]
Summary
Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.
Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.
Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Jan 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5820 |
From Thomas Rivers 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5821 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 31 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5822 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5823 |
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 |
To F. H. Hooker 31 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.
CD believes real education begins after school days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (13 September 1984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10822 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
