From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 54
Summary:
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 [June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 3
Summary:
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel James O’Hara Horsman
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 47
Summary:
Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 69–70
Summary:
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 71
Summary:
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 120
Summary:
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 72–3
Summary:
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 74–5
Summary:
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bryceson Brothers & Co.
Date:
[after June 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 68
Summary:
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
19 June [1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 120
Summary:
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project