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To J. S. Henslow   14 July [1855]

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Sends a list of 22 plants that grow at Hitcham and in the Azores and are, according to H. C. Watson, least likely to have been imported [by man]. Will pay the little girls of Hitcham liberally to collect the seeds for his experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  14 July [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A40–A41, A57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1718

To J. S. Henslow   21 July [1855]

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Thanks JSH for all he has done. His botanical little girls are marvellous. His marking of the list of dubious species is what CD wanted. Explains that he wanted to ascertain whether closely allied forms belong to large or small genera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  21 July [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A98–A100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1726

To J. S. Henslow   23 [July 1855]

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Invites JSH to dine at CD’s brother’s house in London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  23 [July 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1729

To J. S. Henslow   28 July [1855]

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Delighted JSH can dine. Has invited Hooker.

Thanks him for Lychnis seed.

Asks for umbel of wild celery. Wants to ascertain whether wild or tame plants produce most seed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  28 July [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A43–A44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1732

To J. S. Henslow   23 [August or September 1855]

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Asks JSH to identify an umbellifer.

Describes his efforts to compare number of seeds of wild and cultivated plants.

Asks that more wild celery be collected and seeds counted. Seeks to verify whether "most typical form produces most seed" and whether cultivation lessens fertility.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  23 [Aug or Sept] 1855
Classmark:  DAR 93: A112–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1748

To J. S. Henslow   12 October [1855]

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Is impressed by all JSH is doing with his lectures and exhibitions at Hitcham.

Has read admirable Hooker MS on variation, geographical range, etc. [Introductory essay to the Flora Indica (1855)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  12 Oct [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A117–18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1765

To J. S. Henslow   29 October [1855]

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Gives directions for sending seeds collected at Hitcham. The Lychnis and Myosotis have come up. Will begin their "torments" next spring [i.e., experiments to produce "sports"].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  29 Oct [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A101–A102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1770

To J. S. Henslow   10 November [1855]

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Thanks for seeds. Feels "almost foiled" in his experiments on sea transport – has found few plants that float after more than a week’s immersion.

Sends a list of queries [see 1779] on hollyhocks to put to growers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  10 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A103–A105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1778

To J. S. Henslow   12 November 1855

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Draft of queries on the varieties of hollyhocks. [To be transmitted to William Chater by JSH; probably enclosed with 1778.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  12 Nov 1855
Classmark:  DAR 206: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1779

To J. S. Henslow   [23 July –] 15 August [1832]

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Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  [23 July –] 15 Aug [1832]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 13 DAR/1/1/13)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-178

To J. S. Henslow   18 [December 1855]

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Has received the seeds safely.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  18 [Dec 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1797

To J. S. Henslow   26 December [1855]

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Sends a book on clubs, which has raised some worrisome questions about the [Down Friendly] Club. Asks JSH’s advice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  26 Dec [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A48–A49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1801

To John Stevens Henslow   3 January [1856]

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Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.

Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.

Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  3 Jan [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A106–A107
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1816

To J. S. Henslow   22 January [1856]

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Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  22 Jan [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A108–A109
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1823

To J. S. Henslow   16 June [1856]

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Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.

Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  16 June [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A110–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1903

To J. S. Henslow   [c. 26 October –] 24 November [1832]

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A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  [c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-192

From J. S. Henslow   2 August 1856

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One plant in self-sown patch of Aegilops has assumed a triticoidal character; JSH feels it may be an example of Aegilops passing to wheat.

Author:  John Stevens Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Aug 1856
Classmark:  DAR 166: 178
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1936

To J. S. Henslow   6 August [1856]

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Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.

Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  6 Aug [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A55–A56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1939

From J. S. Henslow   15–21 January 1833

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Acknowledges receipt of two letters from CD and a box of specimens.

Mentions attendance at BAAS meeting and a gift to him of a small living near Oxford. Some political news.

Congratulates CD on the work he has done – the specimens are of great interest. Gives advice on packing, labelling, and future collecting and suggests that – as a precaution – CD send home a copy of his notes on the specimens.

Author:  John Stevens Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 and 21 Jan 1833
Classmark:  DAR 204: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-196

From E. A. Darwin to J. S. Henslow   23 January [1833]

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EAD will forward a book and letter to CD; thanks JSH for sending CD’s letters.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  23 Jan [1833]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 15 DAR/1/1/15)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-198
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