From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Nov 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 20
Summary:
Would like JDH to visit. Regrets he will not be fit to visit JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 28
Summary:
Would like to visit on the weekend of 7–8 December.
Differences in floras of St Helena and Ascension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 21
Summary:
Instructions for JDH’s trip to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 22
Summary:
Change in train times.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 114
Summary:
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 35–40
Summary:
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 23
Summary:
Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 39: 33–5
Summary:
Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 24
Summary:
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 32–4
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".
Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.
Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Galapagos flora work goes on well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1844?]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A9–10
Summary:
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 11 Jan 1844?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/28)
Summary:
Longing for a letter from WK. Describes various excurions through Fife.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
John Younger
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Jan 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/30)
Summary:
Responds to WK’s article ‘The latest Geological changes in the south of Scotland’ (Kemp 1843).
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 Jan 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/31)
Summary:
Describes the fire at the gas works in Cupar.
Has been on visit with Hugh Miller to Dura Den.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[15 Feb 1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/33)
Summary:
Has got in a controversy about tar burning with a man from Musselburgh.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/34)
Summary:
Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 July 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/35)
Summary:
Asks for some statistics about gas production.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
8 Aug 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/36)
Summary:
Hopes WK will come soon to Fife.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Unidentified
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 8 July 1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/37)
Summary:
Mr Matheson will set out for London on 8 July [presumably 1844]. It would give the writer much pleasure to see Mr M and the addressee [presumably William Kemp].
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
17 Sept 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/38)
Summary:
Sends a proof. [Presumably Observations on the latest geological changes in the south of Scotland by William Kemp, Galashiels, 1844.]
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Author
- Brodie, B.1
- Bunbury, H.1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Darwin, C. R.31
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Denny, Henry1
- Egerton, P. de M. G.-1
- Ehrenberg, C. G.2
- Forbes, Edward1
- Henslow, J. S.6
- Hooker, J. D.11
- Milne Home, David1
- Oliver, William1
- Smith, Charles Roach1
- Sowerby, G. B.1
- Unidentified1
- Walker, Thomas6
- Waterhouse, G. R.3
- Younger, John1
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