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DCP-LETT-4886

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

DCP-LETT-4889

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
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DCP-LETT-4890

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

DCP-LETT-4610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:

May his son George call for advice on his career?

CD has been ill for past four months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4892

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

DCP-LETT-4893

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4894

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:

Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.

FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.

Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4898

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:

Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.

Belief in value of travel journals.

Current reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4897

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4899

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4900

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

DCP-LETT-4901

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 or 28] Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 275
Summary:

Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.

The Reader.

Politics and science.

Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.

[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:

Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.

Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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