RECORD: Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1909.12.30. Letter to A. E. Shipley. McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.183]. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. See the Introduction and catalogue to the J.C. Simpson collection by John van Wyhe.
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was Darwin's greatest personal friend and confidant, much more so than either Lyell or Huxley, and provided much plant material for Darwin from Kew. (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.)
A. E. Shipley. 1908. Pearls and parasites, with illustrations. London: John Murray.
[Shipley, & Simpson eds.] 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. Text
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J. D. Hooker
TELEGRAMS, WINDLESHAM
Decr. 31 1908
THE CAMP,
NEAR SUNNINGDALE.
My dear Shipley
The only perennial relic of Darwin which I possess & which might be of interest to the proposed Exhibition, the aneroid which hung over the chimney piece of his study is the aneroid & which he habitually consulted. It is of course at the disposal of the "celebration" if thought suitable. Mrs Darwin gave it to me as a memorial of him.
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