From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1841-1858]-5-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.441
Summary:
Invites JH to dinner if possible, or later if not at present possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 July [1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.430
Summary:
Thanks for mentioning HH's book [Medical Notes and Reflections (1839)] in JH's review of William Whewell in latest issue of Quarterly Review. Sends copy of its second edition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 August [1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.432
Summary:
Compliments JH's translation (1842) of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Is going to Scotland, then Switzerland. Has seen enough of America.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 January [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.442
Summary:
Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 January [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.439
Summary:
Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 February [1850]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1856 or after
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:
Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 148–9
Summary:
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 239
Summary:
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Jan 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 236
Summary:
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 240
Summary:
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 March [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.443
Summary:
Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 July [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.277
Summary:
Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project