From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:
Searching for the right gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 131–2
Summary:
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B43
Summary:
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Summary:
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61)
Summary:
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
2 October 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.297-298, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 123
Summary:
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 362–3)
Summary:
Final arrangements for publishing Erasmus Darwin. If he were publishing on commission he would have printed only 1000 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 8
Summary:
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Date:
[after 4 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
Garrison and Garrison 1885–9, 4: 199 n. 1
Summary:
Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 127–8
Summary:
E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009)
Summary:
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
6 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for part three of his Atlas [see 11039].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 133
Summary:
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
8 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
John Murray could supply clichés of two woodcuts at a trifling cost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
Robert Henry Scott
Date:
11 October 1879
Source of text:
MM/10/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 93
Summary:
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898)
Summary:
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project