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DCP-LETT-1115

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:

Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.

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DCP-LETT-1116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C3–C6
Summary:

Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.

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DCP-LETT-1042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[20? Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 14
Summary:

Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.

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DCP-LETT-1043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 13
Summary:

Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.

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DCP-LETT-1047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[16 Apr – 21 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 400
Summary:

CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.

CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.

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DCP-LETT-1048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 139
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Discusses inclination of lava stream.

Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.

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DCP-LETT-1057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 78
Summary:

Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.

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DCP-LETT-1058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 79
Summary:

Cirripede observations.

Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.

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DCP-LETT-1064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 80
Summary:

Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?

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DCP-LETT-1065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:

Asks to call on RC.

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DCP-LETT-1066

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 4 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 73
Summary:

Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.

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DCP-LETT-1067

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 74
Summary:

Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.

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DCP-LETT-1068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 81
Summary:

Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.

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DCP-LETT-1071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 82
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.

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DCP-LETT-1074

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 83
Summary:

Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.

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DCP-LETT-1076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 85
Summary:

Health bad, cannot get to Kew.

Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.

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DCP-LETT-1077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 84
Summary:

JDH’s proposed India trip.

Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.

CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.

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DCP-LETT-1079

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Apr 1847
Source of text:
DAR 47: 156–9
Summary:

[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.

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DCP-LETT-1080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:

Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.

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DCP-LETT-1082

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Apr 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 86
Summary:

Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.

CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".

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