To W. E. Darwin [1861–82]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1861–82] |
| Classmark: | Famous Notables (dealers) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864F |
To Daniel Oliver 22 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2661 |
To Williams & Norgate [1861]
Summary
Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | [1861] |
| Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3040F |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 5 January 1861]
Summary
Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 5 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3042 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
To W. D. Fox 9 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
To John Murray 21 January [1861]
Summary
Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.
Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3048 |
To William Walmisley Baxter? 22 January 1861
Summary
Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1861 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (MS 29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3049 |
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [24 January 1861]
Summary
Writes of Henrietta’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3051 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
