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To John Higgins   15 June 1859

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  15 June 1859
Classmark:  Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2469F

To Charles Lyell   21 June [1859]

Summary

Discusses S. S. Haldeman’s paper ["Enumeration of the recent freshwater Mollusca", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 4 (1844): 468–84].

Centres of species origin.

Describes his corrections of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  21 June [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.165)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2470

To J. D. Hooker   22 [June 1859]

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CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.

Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 [June 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2471

To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer   [before 25 June 1859]

Summary

Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.

Author:  Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer
Date:  [before 25 June 1859]
Classmark:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2472

To Charles Lyell   28 [June 1859]

Summary

Thanks CL for copy of his paper ["Structure of lavas", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86].

Promises him a copy of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  28 [June 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.166)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2473

To George Varenne Reed   1 July [1859]

Summary

Sends payment for Francis Darwin’s tutoring. Inquires about possible arrangements for his son Leonard, who is slow and not well, to attend with Francis.

Asks whether he can have a cutting of GVR’s carrion-smelling Arum which he needs for an experiment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Varenne Reed
Date:  1 July [1859]
Classmark:  Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2474

To J. D. Hooker   2 July [1859]

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Returns JDH’s proofs. He is so involved in Origin he cannot judge force of JDH’s arguments. Some detailed comments.

Haldeman’s old paper [see 2470] clever, but does not have natural selection. Explaining adaptation has always seemed turning point of theory of natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 July [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2475

To W. E. Darwin   7 July [1859]

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Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.

Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  7 July [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476

To John Higgins   13 July [1859]

Summary

His uncle, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, has asked if FSD’s son-in-law, Marcus Huish, can shoot over CD’s Beesby property. Can JH advise?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  13 July [1859]
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476F

From John Higgins   15 July 1859

Summary

Suggests giving Marcus Huish permission to shoot over CD’s Beesby estate, but not to revoke JH’s occasional privilege to take a visitor shooting there.

Author:  John Higgins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1859
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476G

To John Higgins   18 July [1859]

Summary

Has written to his uncle, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, to say that without revoking the right of shooting over Beesby, granted to JH, he is happy to allow Marcus Huish to shoot over the farm.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  18 July [1859]
Classmark:  Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476H

To John Murray   25 [July 1859]

Summary

Sends five sheets [of Origin] to printer. Incapable of forming an opinion, but thinks he has the style "fairly good and clear". Cannot conjecture if book will be successful enough to satisfy JM.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  25 [July 1859]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.36–37)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2477

To Robert Main   27 July [1859]

Summary

Thanks RM for copies of CD’s article on geology in the Admiralty scientific manual [J. F. W. Herschel ed., A manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Main
Date:  27 July [1859]
Classmark:  Royal Astronomical Society (MSS Radcliffe. E.1.200)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2477A

To J. D. Hooker   28 [July 1859]

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CD wants JDH to make clear in introduction to Flora Tasmaniae that remarks on CD’s theory refer to his 1858 paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 [July 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2478

To W. B. Tegetmeier   5 August [1859]

Summary

Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  5 Aug [1859]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2479

To Richard Hill   8 August [1859]

Summary

Compares Jamaican with British and European honey combs.

Requests one-half dozen dead bees and 2 or 3 drones from Mr Wilkie’s stock.

His admiration for RH’s varied accomplishments and service "in the sacred cause of humanity" [the abolition of slavery].

Asks whether it is believed that domestic animals long bred in Jamaica tend to assume a particular colour or character.

Are differences observed in the West Indies in the liability of pure Europeans of light complexion and hair to take the yellow fever or other tropical complaints?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Hill
Date:  8 Aug [1859]
Classmark:  Cundall 1915
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2479A

To A. R. Wallace   9 August 1859

Summary

Will forward ARW’s "admirable" paper to Linnean Society ["On the zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84].

Discusses geographical distribution of animals in the Malay Archipelago; relation of distribution to depth of sea between islands.

Relation of Celebes to Africa almost passes belief.

Differs wholly from ARW on colonisation of oceanic islands; does not believe in Forbes’s great continental extensions.

Anticipates Owen’s opposition to their views, but "he is a poor reasoner & deeply considers the good opinion of the world, especially the aristocratic world".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  9 Aug 1859
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2480

To Adam Sedgwick   24 August [1859]

Summary

Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.

Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".

Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adam Sedgwick
Date:  24 Aug [1859]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2482

To W. E. Darwin   25 [August 1859]

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Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  25 [Aug 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2483

To John Murray   31 August [1859]

Summary

Sheets [of Origin] up to p. 240 are ready. Asks how many copies and how soon JM will publish. Hopes as soon as possible because of his health. Bitterly disappointed at delay he has caused.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  31 Aug [1859]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.58–59)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2484
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