On This Day, 215 years ago, 26th July 1810, Dawson Turner wrote a very short letter to Ellen Hutchins to enclose a note about Jungermanniae (liverworts) from William Jackson Hooker. Dawson Turner also sent an etching that his wife had done the week before and added a postscript to the letter – ‘Tell me, I…
Read more
Dawson Turner’s letter to Ellen on 1st November, ‘On This Day’ 210 years ago, expresses his relief at the news, heard from Thomas Taylor, that Ellen was thought to be recovering from her ‘dreadful illness’ and ‘even pronounced to be out of danger’. Dawson Turner repeated his hope that Ellen would be able to journey…
Read more
On this day, 11th September, 210 years ago, in 1814, Dawson Turner wrote a long, friendly, and carefully composed letter to Ellen Hutchins. Read the whole letter HERE. Ellen, in her letter to Dawson Turner on 4th August, wrote of ‘the value of your friendship. It has been one of the best blessings of an…
Read more
210 years ago, On This Day – 16th December 1812, Ellen wrote to Dawson Turner again, just nine days after her last letter and in today’s letter she said that she would write again in a few days. The letter she was responding to has not survived. The spur to write, even though she was…
Read more
