From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[20? Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 14
Summary:
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 13
Summary:
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[16 Apr – 21 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 400
Summary:
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 139
Summary:
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Discusses inclination of lava stream.
Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 78
Summary:
Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 79
Summary:
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 80
Summary:
Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:
Asks to call on RC.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 81
Summary:
Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 82
Summary:
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 83
Summary:
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 85
Summary:
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 84
Summary:
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Apr 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 86
Summary:
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:
CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:
CD would like to call on JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
Contributor:
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Author
- Darwin, C. R.
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
Correspondent
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Chambers, Robert2
- Cresy, Edward, Jr8
- Darwin, C. R.223
- Darwin, Catherine3
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Darwin, Emma18
- Darwin, S. E.9
- Davis, J. E.1
- De la Beche, H. T.1
- Denny, Henry1
- Falconer, Hugh2
- Farrer, T. H.1
- FitzRoy, Robert5
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gould, John1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.15
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Heywood, James1
- Hooker, J. D.118
- Horner, A. S.1
- Horner, Leonard3
- Horner, M. E.1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- Kemp, William12
- King, P. J. L.1
- Langton, Catherine3
- Leighton, W. A.1
- Lloyd, A. S.1
- Lyell, Charles3
- Lyell, M. E.1
- Maclaren, Charles1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Reeks, Trenham1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Royle, J. F.2
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Sharpe, Daniel1
- Stokes, Charles1
- Stokes, J. L.1
- The Scotsman1
- Tollet, Georgina1
- Verney, Harry1
- Waterhouse, G. R.2
- Wedgwood, Emma18
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III2
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
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