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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Aug–Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473)
Summary:
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
4 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A53–4
Summary:
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
Contributor:
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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 29
Summary:
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A19–21
Summary:
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 249
Summary:
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown
Summary:
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 34
Summary:
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 250
Summary:
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A29–30
Summary:
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474)
Summary:
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 252
Summary:
On moving the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Subscription for John Ralfs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 31
Summary:
Sends WED a bank draft.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 33
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Egan
Date:
8 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.160)
Summary:
Asks about dark stripes on shoulders and legs of Hungarian horses. Are stripes plainer in foal or adult?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9[–10] Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 253
Summary:
Lyell receives Copley Medal; CD to write notes for JDH’s éloge of Lyell.
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