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DCP-LETT-1098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:

CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.

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DCP-LETT-1099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived.

Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.

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DCP-LETT-1100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[27 June 1847]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 385)
Summary:

Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.

Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
4 July [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
21 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 383
Summary:

Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].

He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1103F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
27 July [1849]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Returns the enclosed from his brother [Erasmus Alvey Darwin]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1104

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:

Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.

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DCP-LETT-1105

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:

Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.

Urges JDH to go to Scotland.

Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.

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DCP-LETT-1106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:

Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.

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DCP-LETT-1107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
13 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.

Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1108

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 401
Summary:

CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].

Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1108F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:

Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[12 Apr – 17 May 1847]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 12879)
Summary:

Will send village carrier for volumes [of the Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:

Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.

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DCP-LETT-1111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
19 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:

Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.

CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1111F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 Aug? 1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:

Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.

Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
1 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
Summary:

Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
2 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61)
Summary:

Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1114

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date:
7 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62)
Summary:

Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.

Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.

Comments on larva of Scalpellum.

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