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DCP-LETT-4361F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
4 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 213
Summary:

His bad health continues.

Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.

Origin to be published in Italian.

Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4351

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 215
Summary:

CD too ill to write.

Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.

Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4355

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].

Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4356

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
12 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.

He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"

and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".

Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4352

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[before 17 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129)
Summary:

CD too ill to write.

Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.

He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4358

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for pamphlet.

He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4357

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 13
Summary:

Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4359

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 214
Summary:

CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.

Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4360

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
28 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11)
Summary:

CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4360F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[c. 28 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179)
Summary:

Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
30 Dec [1863] – 3 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1026/1)
Summary:

Will be proud to receive EH’s Die Radiolarien [1862].

Health continues very weak.

[P.S. 3 Jan] Has sent EH another letter by mistake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4362

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 25
Summary:

Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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