Search: 1860-1869::1865::10::03 in date 
letter in document-type 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–6 of 6 items

DCP-LETT-4907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 276
Summary:

Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.

Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-4908

From:
Charles Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 147
Summary:

Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11282

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.185
Summary:

Sends a copy of the address of the President of the B.A.A.S. at Birmingham, also an Aylesbury newspaper containing the funeral sermon on Admiral W. H. Smyth. Misses Smyth very much. Hopes JH is well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of the Intellectual Observer
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.35
Summary:

A French civil engineer having proposed in the previous issue of the IO the idea of supporting roofs on the principle of the suspension bridge, JH reports that JH came up with this idea in 1836 and provides a sketch of such that JH made in that year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2544

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.453 (C: RS:HS 24.123)
Summary:

JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

WCP5303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available