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DCP-LETT-2504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 23
Summary:

Book finished some two weeks.

Feeling much better at Ilkley.

Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.

Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2509

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Oct 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 24
Summary:

Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].

Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Oct or 3 Nov] 1859
Source of text:
DAR 115: 25
Summary:

More detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae]. Remarks on struggle of vegetation are admirable.

JDH will receive Origin in about ten days.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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