From:
Louis Pasteur
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1874
Source of text:
MM/5/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 342
Summary:
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 345–6
Summary:
Quite agrees with JDH on inadvisability of Huxley’s taking on the Edinburgh lectures.
Is awaiting JDH’s memorial to the Board [of Works?] on his burdensome duties.
Glad to hear JDH finds ease in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 347–348
Summary:
Has forwarded JDH’s memorial to T. H. Farrer to take up with Sir Stafford Northcote and to ask him to consider the case of Kew personally. Has told Farrer that JDH was thinking of resigning if Government would not give him an assistant secretary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
