From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 238
Summary:
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 240
Summary:
Darwin responding to Hooker's request for papers. Darwin seems resigned to not to ARW usurping him regarding the explanation of how and why species change over time, "I daresay all is too late. I hardly care about it.—".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Conveys news of the death of Darwin's baby son. References letters received from Hooker regarding the suggestion that they present ARW's paper and Darwin's writings as a joint paper to the Linnaean Society.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 240
Summary:
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 241, 241a
Summary:
Darwin thanks Hooker for reporting that all went well at the Linnean Society and supports Hooker's suggestion that he (Hooker) write to ARW to "exonerate" Darwin.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 241
Summary:
Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [July] [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 242, 242a
Summary:
Darwin comments that Hooker's letter to ARW is perfect and that he has forwarded it to ARW along with one from himself. Darwin states he had resigned himself to giving up priority regarding evolution by natural selection to ARW but for influence from Lyell and Hooker.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 242
Summary:
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 243
Summary:
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 July 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 244
Summary:
Darwin requests a clean proof (of his abstract?) for ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 July [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 244
Summary:
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 [July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 247
Summary:
Six children have died of scarlet fever in Down village.
Writing abstract is amusing and improving work. Thanks JDH and Lyell for setting him to it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 August 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 246, 246a
Summary:
Darwin requests a clean proof of Darwin and Wallace 1858 to send to ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 246
Summary:
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 245
Summary:
Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.
Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 September 1858
Source of text:
- Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1H/2.35
- Huxley, L. (1913). In: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan & Co. [pp. 229-231]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Willem Hendrik de Vriese
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 180: 27
Summary:
Answers CD’s query about distribution of European perennials in the highlands of Java.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 6 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Tim Lewens (private collection)
Summary:
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 248
Summary:
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
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