From:
Martin Ziegler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 184: 9
Summary:
On Drosera, with which MZ has worked for four years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Mazière Courtenay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 227
Summary:
Sends photograph of epileptic idiot and encloses case history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
22 November [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 144
Summary:
RBS seeks a testimonial from CD; he is applying for the British Museum vacancy left by J. E. Gray’s resignation and A. Günther’s promotion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Smyth
Date:
24 November 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M187, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
24 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C66
Summary:
Testimonial stating CD’s opinion of RBS’s fitness for a higher post at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
25 November 1874
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 153: 91
Summary:
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 228–9; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/1/14/f. 54)
Summary:
Encloses a letter [from Huxley about his invitation to lecture at Edinburgh]. Has done his best to dissuade Huxley from accepting the burden.
JDH’s depression in bereavement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 November 1874
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 10, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Farrer, T. H.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
26 November 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1566
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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From:
William Pengelly
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 November 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 285
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 40
Summary:
CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.
With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
27 Nov 1874
Source of text:
49, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762)
Summary:
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 230–1
Summary:
Huxley feels he can accept the Edinburgh lecture invitation.
Also tells JDH he is preparing a paper for Linnean Society on classification which will uphold evolution ["On the classification of the animal kingdom", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 199–226]. He has thrown overboard all his old ideas of definite demarcation. He will make a clean breast of it, and will bear hard on necessity of all such ideas as Haeckel’s in dealing with systematic zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 November 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks for Thiselton-Dyer's opinion on an enclosed dedication [enclosure not present]. He reports that he is feeling unwell but must send off his letter to the British Museum.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C67–8
Summary:
Hooker is greatly overworked at Kew and is trying to get the Government to provide some help. CD hopes THF will take an interest in the matter and forwards a copy of JDH’s application for an assistant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[29 November 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 302
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters