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DCP-LETT-3388

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:

Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].

Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3390

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 239
Summary:

Has read CD’s Primula paper.

Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3400

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Jan 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 236
Summary:

Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3423

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 240
Summary:

Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3424F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
31 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Private collection (on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Summary:

Returns HH’s essay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3435

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:

Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3485

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:

Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10566

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 March [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.443
Summary:

Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3490

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:

Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3562

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8392

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 July [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.277
Summary:

Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10559

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 November [1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.436
Summary:

Will send copy of second edition of HH's Essays on Scientific...Subjects (1862). Received letter from HH's friend and former patient Louis Napoleon, who will send copy of Napoleon's book on Gallic campaigns of Caesar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10558

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.435
Summary:

Received JH's translation of fourth book of Iliad. Will return it with comments in a few days. Attended two or three excellent lectures by JH's son. HH needs to balance mental efforts with more physical activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10557

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 January [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.434
Summary:

Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3959

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 243
Summary:

Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.

Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4659

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 244
Summary:

Congratulations on the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4661F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.

Discusses his long period of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4735

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 245
Summary:

Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].

Remarks on development of the tapeworm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel979

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56a
Summary:

HH has nominated JH's son Alexander to fill a post become vacant by the death of Robert FitzRoy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Holland
Date:
[2 May 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56c
Summary:

Writes to thank HH for his kindness in nominating son Alexander for the meteorological post [see HH's 1865-5-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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