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‘May the approaching new year be…’

On This Day, 215 years ago, 29th December 1810, Ellen wrote to Dawson Turner. She had been ill again and unable to go out for two months ’until this day’....

‘The arrangement of submersed algae’

215 years ago, On This Day, 9th November 1810, Ellen Hutchins wrote to Dawson Turner. She laid out her ideas for ‘the arrangement of the submersed Algae’, described a whale...

‘Can you read this French puzzle?’

On This Day, 215 years ago, 17th October 1810, Dawson Turner wrote to Ellen. The letter includes great praise for Ellen’s latest drawings, a significant request for Ellen’s ideas on...

‘The view from our door’

215 years ago, On This Day, 22nd September 1810, Ellen Hutchins received a letter from Dawson Turner and wrote another letter to him, just five days since her last one....

Desiderata

On This Day, 215 years ago, 17th September 1810, Ellen Hutchins wrote to Dawson Turner. She covers a wide range of subjects and it has some great passages within it....

‘I hope you will not disapprove’

On This Day, 215 years ago – 13th September 1810 – Dawson Turner wrote to Ellen Hutchins. He expressed concern at not having heard from her. The volumes of Dawson...

‘By a singular coincidence’

9th August 1810, On This Day, 215 years ago, Dawson Turner wrote to Ellen Hutchins with news that the Pinguicula which Ellen had been describing in her letter of 24th...

‘A very strange quality’

The image above is one of Ellen Hutchins’ specimens of Fucus viridis, now named Desmarestia viridis and commonly known as Desmarest’s Green Weed or Stringy Acid Kelp. Finding it On...

A note on liverworts from William Jackson Hooker

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....

’It is a most beautiful plant’

On this day, 215 years ago, 24th July 1810, Ellen Hutchins wrote to Dawson Turner about botanical matters, friendship and poetry. Read the full letter from 24th July 1810 HERE....

‘Esteem & regard’

On this day, 12th July, 215 years ago, in 1810, Dawson Turner wrote to Ellen Hutchins. Read the full letter from 12th July 1810 HERE. A missing letter There...

‘That most extraordinary vegetable’

On This day, 215 years ago, on 25th May 1810, another letter was written by Dawson Turner to Ellen Hutchins. Read the letter of 25th May 1810 HERE. Dawson Turner...