From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
15 Mar ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 334, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 342, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 344, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
William Somerville
Date:
n.d
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 343, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
5 Oct ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 335, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
26 Oct ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 336, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Dec ????
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 339, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-7-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.433
Summary:
Sends unpublished volume written at the request of HH's children. Experiments with soap bubbles. Heard that JH translated first canto of Dante's Inferno.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.428
Summary:
Inquires about unusual weather at Cape of Good Hope in late 1836. Was there an epidemic of influenza at Cape early in 1837?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.429
Summary:
Sending HH's Medical Notes and Reflections (1839).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1841-1858]-5-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.441
Summary:
Invites JH to dinner if possible, or later if not at present possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 July [1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.430
Summary:
Thanks for mentioning HH's book [Medical Notes and Reflections (1839)] in JH's review of William Whewell in latest issue of Quarterly Review. Sends copy of its second edition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 August [1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.432
Summary:
Compliments JH's translation (1842) of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Is going to Scotland, then Switzerland. Has seen enough of America.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 January [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.442
Summary:
Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 January [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.439
Summary:
Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 February [1850]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:
Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 148–9
Summary:
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project