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DCP-LETT-8449

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 225–6
Summary:

CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.

The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 227–8
Summary:

Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8492

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075)
Summary:

Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].

Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.424)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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