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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
20 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70)
Summary:
Tells of his father’s ill health.
Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection)
Summary:
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
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:
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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
5 July 1844
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4)
Summary:
Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III; Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
25 July 1844
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1012)
Summary:
Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
12 Oct [1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 or 27] Oct 1844
Source of text:
Emma Darwin 2: 92
Summary:
Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
25 [Nov 1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
Contributor:
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Author
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.23
- Denny, Henry7
- Gardeners’ Chronicle5
- Carpenter, W. B.3
- Darwin, Emma3
- Dieffenbach, Ernst3
- Ehrenberg, C. G.3
- Forbes, J. D.3
- Morlot, C. A.3
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III3
- Blomefield, Leonard2
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Jenyns, Leonard2
- Kemp, William2
- Royal Geographical Society2
- Darwin, S. E.1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Geological Society of London1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Jackson, Julian1
- Leighton, W. A.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Unidentified1
- Waterhouse, G. R.1
- Wicksted, Charles1
- Wood, C. A.1