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Herschel13843

From:
Few & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0190; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sign enclosed authorization for Few & Co. to obtain Hollier Trust deeds from bank. Deeds will be exchanged for £1000.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4288

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 108; DAR 165: 139, 140
Summary:

Sees difficulties in adhering to the concept of design in nature.

Is surprised at Hooker’s and Daniel Oliver’s ignorance regarding spontaneous movements of tendrils.

CD should continue his work on climbing plants, "it will be fruitful in your hands".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family and local news, and memories of old times.

CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.

CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2973

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1863-9]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #34, 35, 36
Summary:

Three maps of meteors observed in 1863 by JH[?] and Alexander Herschel

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1134

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.65-66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1451

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.251, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel11160

From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.48
Summary:

Outlining the events leading to the rejection of his claim for the French Academy medal for mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4289

From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 124
Summary:

Thanks CD for his letter and geological report on the stones JJA sent.

Encloses postage stamps for CD’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2031

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday morning
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1183; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2126-7, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel1915

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Booth Tyndale
Date:
[3 September 1863]
Source of text:
WT B.13
Summary:

Responds with thanks to GT, a fellow trustee of the British Museum, who has written to welcome JH and congratulate him on his election. JH is concerned about having enough time to fulfill his obligations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 [Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 33
Summary:

Sends address.

Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 [Sept 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140)
Summary:

His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.

Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4290

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 12
Summary:

Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].

Family news.

Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4291

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 40
Summary:

Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4294

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6–27 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a)
Summary:

Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4295

From:
Edward Levett Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 99: 17–18
Summary:

Glad to find they are cousins.

Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4296

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 180
Summary:

Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11994

From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.356
Summary:

Will come and visit him on Friday afternoon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5557

From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.47
Summary:

Has received his note with the queries. Will be forwarding a copy of last week's proceedings to him later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4286

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
[8 Sept – 13 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 273
Summary:

Comments on JP’s work [Old Price’s remains (1863–4)].

Anglo-American relations. Progress of the Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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