From John Lubbock 2 November [1868]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6443 |
From M. T. Masters 2 November 1868
Summary
After examining a basket of piebald potatoes he does believe them to be a graft-hybrid as Friedrich Hildebrand might suggest.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6444 |
To W. D. Fox 4 November 1868
Summary
Much interested in WDF’s letter on inheritance and courtship of birds. CD "in a great muddle" on many points.
Asks for further information on proportion of sexes in sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 4 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 150) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6447 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 4 November 1868
Summary
Potato graft-hybrid fails to give potatoes.
August Weismann requests Wallace’s address to find out about experiments on butterflies hinted at in Variation.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6448 |
From John Lubbock 6 November [1868]
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6449 |
To Ernst Haeckel 7 November 1868
Summary
Thanks for [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. "What an indomitable worker you are."
Agrees with EH’s Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 7 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6450 |
From W. S. Dallas 7 November 1868
Summary
The position at Geological Society is now vacant, and he is working for it in earnest. Asks CD for a testimonial.
Continues his work on Für Darwin.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6451 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 November 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].
Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.
Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6452 |
From Albert Gaudry 9 November 1868
Summary
Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6454 |
To W. S. Dallas 11 November [1868]
Summary
A letter strongly recommending him for the post of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | 11 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (LDGSL 286/8); DAR 96: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6457 |
From G. H. Lewes 12 November 1868
Summary
Disappointed that he missed CD. Hopes still to see him in the flesh.
Has CD seen August Weismann’s inaugural address [see 6297]?
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6458 |
To G. H. Lewes [13 November 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | [13 Nov 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6459 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 14 November [1868]
Summary
Suggests FH’s graft-hybrid potatoes should remain with FH.
Sends addresses of Alfred Russel Wallace and Alexander Wallace for August Weismann.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 14 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6459F |
From T. H. Huxley 13 November 1868
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6460 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 November 1868
Summary
Thanks for Botanische Zeitung notice of CD’s paper ["On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437]. FH writes clearest style of all German authors.
Asks that August Weismann be told about papers by Wallace and Bates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6461 |
To John Higgins 16 November 1868
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £259 11s. 10d.
Obliged for JH’s good account of Francis Hardy’s management of Beesby Farm.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 16 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6461F |
From G. H. Lewes [17 November 1868]
Summary
Asks CD to propose him for Linnean Society.
Would like to have Lyell put his objections to GHL’s papers [Fortn. Rev. 9 (1868): 353–73, 611–28; 10 (1868): 61–80, 492–509] in the form of notes, so he can have them before him when he recasts his papers into a book.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6462 |
From W. S. Dallas 17 November 1868
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6463 |
To Albert Gaudry 17 November 1868
Summary
Thanks AG for Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique [1862–7]. Refers to Lyell’s quotation from AG as "one of the most striking I have ever read on the affiliation of Species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6464 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 November 1868
Summary
Is interested to know whether there are differences in the period of development of horns in sheep in those breeds in which horns are common to both sexes, and in those in which horns are confined to males.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Hudson Rogue (dealers) (Catalogue 9); Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 November 1868, p. 1218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6464A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Natura Artis Magistra (Artis). | (1) |
Price, John | (1) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |