To William Walmisley Baxter 26 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 26 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13773 |
To Edward Cresy 8 January [1862 or 1868]
Summary
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 8 Jan [1862 or 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13788 |
To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [3] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3371 |
To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard 2 January [1862]
Summary
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3372 |
To Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [after 10 January 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
Date: | [after 10 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 11r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3380 |
To H. W. Bates 13 January [1862]
Summary
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 13 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3382 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862]
Summary
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 15 and 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3389 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1862]
Summary
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3391 |
To C. C. Babington 20 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.
Asks for plants he wants for experiments.
Preparing a little book on Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 20 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3397 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 January [1862]
Summary
Much amused at the Witness.
Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.
Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.
Has 16 ill in the house!
Natural History Review a capital number.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3403 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3409 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862]
Summary
His answer to Asa Gray.
On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.
Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.
Huxley on Owen.
Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].
Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3411 |
To John Murray 28 January [1862]
Summary
H. W. Bates is, at CD’s urging, writing a book of travel and natural history. CD suggests JM might be interested in publishing it. Recommends HWB and his MS highly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 28 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 28–29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3415 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.
Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.
James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3421 |
To H. W. Bates 31 January [1862]
Summary
Encloses note from Murray, hoping it will be satisfactory. Murray is ready to see as much of MS as possible. Murray is considered honest but may be cautious, since HWB’s name is unknown to the public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 31 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3424 |
To Henry Holland 31 January [1862]
Summary
Returns HH’s essay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Private collection (on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3424F |
To [Alfred Malherbe?] [1862–5?]
Summary
Testimonial for a position as a librarian. Recipient is the author of a great monograph on the Picidae [woodpeckers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Malherbe |
Date: | [1862–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6524 |
To D. F. Nevill 22 January [1862]
Summary
Thanks for orchids and other flowers.
Will send photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3405 |
letter | (21) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Malherbe, Alfred | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Malherbe, Alfred | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |