From J. S. Bowerbank [4 November 1867]
Summary
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
| Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13780 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 19 November 1867]
Summary
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 19 Nov 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5334 |
From John Murray 1 November [1867]
Summary
Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].
Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5661 |
From Henry Napier Bruce Erskine to Frances Julia Wedgwood 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
| Author: | Henry Napier Bruce Erskine |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5663 |
From Charles Kingsley 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 36, 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5664 |
To Fritz Müller 2 November 1867
Summary
Variation to be published at end of month.
Dimorphism and self-sterility.
Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5666 |
To John Murray 2 November [1867]
Summary
Dallas’ index [for Variation] well done but rather too full.
A hybrid from an ass and a bull is utterly incredible.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 176–177) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5667 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 2 November 1867
Summary
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5668 |
To J. V. Carus 4 November [1867]
Summary
Sends corrected title of Variation and report of progress in printing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5669 |
From William Sweetland Dallas 4 November 1867
Summary
WSD is pleased that CD approves his index draft [for Variation]; notes his objection to long list of references under "Dogs" and will try to find a principle for shortening it. He has not indexed all authors’ names; is this practice satisfactory?
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5670 |
To Charles Kingsley 6 November [1867]
Summary
He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5670F |
To W. S. Dallas 8 November [1867]
Summary
Suggestions on listing authors in the index [for Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5671 |
From Edward Wilson 8 November 1867
Summary
Has sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing].
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5672 |
From Charles Kingsley 8 November 1867
Summary
Remarks on Darwinism’s reception. The radical press shies away, out of ignorance, because CD may be made out to be a Tory. He has met a Darwinian Marchioness.
The mystery of sex is the origin of all religion.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5673 |
From Francis Elliott Kitchener 9 November 1867
Summary
Sends Swiss Aquilegia flowers in which insects have eaten away the spurs.
Suggests fetid smell of Stapelia attracts carrion flies.
| Author: | Francis Elliott Kitchener |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5674 |
From W. S. Dallas 10 November 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for his two notes [on indexing references to authors]; will increase the scope of his citations by including those quoted in footnotes in support of statements in the text.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5675 |
From J. V. Carus 11 November 1867
Summary
Is not writing prospectus [of Variation] – merely sketch of contents and tenor of first volume for advertisement to booksellers.
Questions on details for the translation.
Publisher anxious to get volume out.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5676 |
From Samuel Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller 12 November 1867
Summary
Sends some answers [missing] to CD’s queries on expression.
| Author: | Samuel Wilson |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5677 |
To J. V. Carus 14 November [1867]
Summary
Sends revision of vol. 1 [of Variation]. Advance sale at auction sold 1200 copies, to CD’s great surprise. Publication delayed by index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 52–53) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5678 |
From C. L. Brace 14 November 1867
Summary
Distribution of plants.
Removal of posterior molars a common dental practice in America [see Descent 1: 27].
| Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5679 |
| letter | (42) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Aylmer, I. E. | (1) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
| Darling, I. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Erskine, H. N. B. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (2) |
| Kitchener, F. E. | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Plimsoll, Joseph | (1) |
| Rolfe, R. M. | (1) |
| Salter, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
| Slack, H. J. | (1) |
| Wilson, Edward | (1) |
| Wilson, Samuel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (2) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
