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DCP-LETT-5818

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 61
Summary:

Many thanks for the book [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5819

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5821

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5822

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5823

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5853

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 195
Summary:

Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
6 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 77
Summary:

Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7040

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868–70?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 164–5
Summary:

Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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