From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 73
Summary:
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B35
Summary:
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 239–40
Summary:
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 245
Summary:
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 235–6
Summary:
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B25–6
Summary:
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 September 1865
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B25, B26
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 55
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 162-163]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 237–8
Summary:
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
Contributor:
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From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 34–6a
Summary:
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 8
Summary:
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project