Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 May 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 13, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 13
Summary:
CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 43
Summary:
Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 14
Summary:
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
6 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.57–57A)
Summary:
CD is convinced that the suggestions [for the Origin?] of both Lyell and Whitwell Elwyn are impracticable.
Will send first six chapters of MS next week. Has taken such pains with it that he hopes corrections will not be heavy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.56–57)
Summary:
Sends first six chapters [of Origin] for the press. Asks JM to urge printer to keep well ahead of CD so as not to waste time. This is important for his health’s sake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 15
Summary:
Darwin delighted at Asa Gray's reaction to Darwin and Wallace 1858.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 15
Summary:
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.40–40A)
Summary:
Approves specimen sheet [of Origin]. Sorry book will be so long. Has now written half of last chapter; it is as long as his estimate of the entire chapter. Now thinks it will run to 6000 or 7000 words. Will do his utmost to improve his style. Anxious to publish soon; he knows of two men already writing on the subject, starting from his Linnean Society paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Will send a diagram for the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 16
Summary:
Too ill to examine proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May [1859]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
His health has suddenly failed. He is leaving home for one week’s rest.
Has informed William Clowes that he will begin correcting on the 27th.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 17
Summary:
Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.41–42)
Summary:
CD’s diagram [for chapter on "Divergence of character", Origin] is indispensable.
Finds he will have to make many corrections, his text is so obscure.
A week of hydropathy at Moor Park has done him a world of good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project