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DCP-LETT-6964

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

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DCP-LETT-7272

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117)
Summary:

Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.

F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].

Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.

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DCP-LETT-8036

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 93–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1905, ff. 1066–7)
Summary:

Details of the JDH–Ayrton–Gladstone imbroglio.

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DCP-LETT-8492

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075)
Summary:

Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].

Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.

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DCP-LETT-9732

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.

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