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DCP-LETT-5801

From:
Henry (Carter, Henry Bonham) Bonham-Carter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 245
Summary:

Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0695

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[26 January 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-5802

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 185
Summary:

Congratulates CD on George’s success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5853

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 195
Summary:

Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5806

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 250
Summary:

Congratulations on George’s being Second Wrangler at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5805

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 248
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.

Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 41–2
Summary:

Grieved by Wollaston’s troubles. Offers contribution of £100. "How foolish men are in their investments."

Delight about George’s success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5809

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 66
Summary:

Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5807

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 189–190
Summary:

Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.

JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].

Cannot read Duke of Argyll.

CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5811

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 228
Summary:

Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
29 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 326
Summary:

Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5810

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 186: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for present [of Variation].

Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5812

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 7
Summary:

Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5814

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 313
Summary:

Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5819

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5818

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 61
Summary:

Many thanks for the book [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5823

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5821

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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