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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 251
Summary:

A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 253
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 97
Summary:

Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:

Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Henry Holland
Date:
5 Jan 1859
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
15 Mar ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 334, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
5 Oct ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 335, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
26 Oct ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 336, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Dec ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 339, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 342, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
William Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 343, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 344, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.428
Summary:

Inquires about unusual weather at Cape of Good Hope in late 1836. Was there an epidemic of influenza at Cape early in 1837?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.429
Summary:

Sending HH's Medical Notes and Reflections (1839).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 July [1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.430
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning HH's book [Medical Notes and Reflections (1839)] in JH's review of William Whewell in latest issue of Quarterly Review. Sends copy of its second edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.431
Summary:

JH's translation of first canto of Dante's Inferno (1868) is best HH has ever seen. Thanks for JH's commendation of HH's own translations [?]. More observations of soap bubbles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 August [1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.432
Summary:

Compliments JH's translation (1842) of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Is going to Scotland, then Switzerland. Has seen enough of America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-7-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.433
Summary:

Sends unpublished volume written at the request of HH's children. Experiments with soap bubbles. Heard that JH translated first canto of Dante's Inferno.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 January [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.434
Summary:

Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project