To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for Asa Gray’s letter, enclosed.
Knew JDH would not care about omissions but was vexed at his own forgetfulness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5112 |
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] . In his letter to Gray of 16 April [1866] , CD …
- … Union ( Winks 1960 , pp. 221–2). See letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 17. On …
- … sold (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] and enclosure 1). The …
- … in the United States, see the letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 15. Fenian …
- … to Asa Gray, 21 December [1859] , and letter to John Murray, 22 December [ 1859] , and …
- … with mosses and lichens (see ibid. , letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , and letter …
- … see the letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 16. See letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [ …
- … Asa Gray, 3 July 1866 . Gray refers to the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor & Fields (see letter …
- … to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and nn. 13 and 14. See also letter to Thomas Rivers, 27 …
- … Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 11. Gray had negotiated with the publisher, D. Appleton & Co . , the author’s share of the profits of the US edition of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 ). Bignonia caproleata is discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 56–9, 102–5, and 113. See also Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 ). D. Appleton and Co. did not publish a new edition of Origin until 1870 ( Freeman 1977 ). Gray’s name appears on the presentation list for the fourth edition of Origin (see Correspondence vol. 14, Appendix IV). See letter …
To John Murray 23 October [1866]
Summary
A letter from Asa Gray informs CD that Ticknor & Fields will not publish a new edition of Origin to compete with Appleton’s unrevised edition. They recommend sending copies of the English edition for the American market.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 151–152) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5253 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
To John Murray 16 October [1866]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts [in Variation]. Hopes to be ready to print early in 1867.
Encloses letter from Asa Gray [5160] about Appleton’s refusal to alter their plates for a new edition of Origin.
CD asks JM to consider Gray’s plan to have the English edition compete with the American.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 16 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 147–148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5245 |
Matches: 3 hits
To Asa Gray 4 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s trouble about new edition of Origin.
Will be printing his new book [Variation] at the end of the year.
[Forwarded by AG, with covering note, to Mr Fields of Ticknor & Fields.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5177 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the American edition of Origin , see the letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 11. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 . Gray was in …
- … Asa Gray, 18 July 1866 ). On Murray’s reasons for delaying publication of the fourth edition of Origin , see the letter …
- … Asa Gray, 18 July 1866 ). Gray had suggested that CD’s publisher, John Murray , supply copies of the fourth edition of Origin for the American market (see letter …
To Asa Gray 10 September [1866]
Summary
L. Agassiz’s evidence [for glaciation of America] is very weak.
Thanks AG for arranging for American edition of Variation, but doubts that the book will be successful.
Has found no differences in pollen of Rhamnus so cannot conjecture whether it is dimorphic.
The common oxlip of England is certainly a hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip whereas Primula elatior is a good species.
Reports experiments on the relative vigour of seedlings from cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5210 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 . When Leonard Darwin was …
- … 9] September [1866] and n. 6. See letter from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 . CD had asked his …
- … to recast most of the book. See letter from Asa Gray, 18 July 1866 and n. 6. CD refers …
- … from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 . Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz’s letter to Charles Lyell has …
- … vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and 28 July [1862] ). See letter …
- … Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 ). Gray had enclosed specimens of the flowers of Rhamnus lanceolatus with his letter …
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] . CD had asked his publisher, John Murray , …
- … revisions and additional material (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 7). …
- … plants of Rhamnus from a nursery (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 9). …
- … see letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1866] ). When Gray mentioned in his letter of 27 August …
- … Gray the early results of his experiments on the relative growth and vigour of seedlings raised from cross-fertilised and self-fertilised plants; these indicated that the crossed seedlings were significantly larger than the seedlings from self-fertilised plants (see letter to Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 and n. 2). Gray had sent CD specimens of the dimorphic flowers of Rhamnus lanceolatus (a synonym of Endotropis lanceolata subsp. lanceolata , lanceleaf buckthorn) with his letter …
From Asa Gray 18 July 1866
Summary
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1866 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 149–150); DAR 159: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5160 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … of the American edition of Origin , see the letter from Asa Gray, 7 May 1866 and n. 3. …
- … the American edition of Origin , see the letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n. 11. …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, 3 July 1866 . CD forwarded Gray’s letter to his publisher, John …
- … with a preface by Gray ( Freeman 1977 , p. 124). See letter from Asa Gray, 3 July 1866 , …
- … Gray may have enclosed the statement of sales for the US edition of Origin printed here. CD and Gray had recently discussed the sale of the book, with Gray noting that he had received ‘nothing from Appleton’s for years’ (see letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 3 July 1866 and n. 5. ‘Sign n. ’: i.e. , signature N. A signature is a letter …
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
From Asa Gray 27 August 1866
Summary
Hopes to make good arrangement for publication of CD’s Variation.
Agassiz claims to have proved all of America was covered with unbroken ice during the glacial period.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5198 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1866] , …
- … Gray has been found. CD’s note is a rough draft for a part of his letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September [1866] . CD’s notes are for his reply to Gray’s letter (see letter to Asa …
- … Gray Charles Darwin, Esq | Down | Bromley | Please post 4.1 Agassiz … way! 6.1] enclosed in square brackets, pencil Back of letter : ‘Lenny thanks | Lyell about Agassiz | Perfect case | copy of Origin | if Appleton | non-seeding Plants | Domestic animals woodcuts | Rhamnus’ pencil, crossed pencil P.S. I have just received a letter from Asa …
- … Asa Gray, 7 August 1866 and n. 6. D. Appleton & Co . was the American publisher of Origin. James Thomas Fields was the head of the publishing firm Ticknor & Fields . See the letter …
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 9] September [1866] and n. 6). See letter from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 ; see also Lurie …
- … many of Müller’s findings. See letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 13. …
- … Asa Gray tells me that A. started with the determination to prove that the whole world had been covered with ice in order to annihilate all Darwinian views. I hope I have not troubled you with this long letter & …
To George Bentham 27 September [1866]
Summary
His memory deceived him about GB’s statement [on propagation of thistles].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 705–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5220 |
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 7 May 1866 . The second part of Gray’s …
- … plate. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Asa Gray, 23 January 1860 and n. 2. After …
- … Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] ). CD’s lightly annotated copy of Gray 1865–6 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In his letter …
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1866]
Summary
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5093 |
From John Murray 18 July [1866]
Summary
Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.
Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5161 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 3 hits
From William Erasmus Darwin [7 May – 11 June 1866]
Summary
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 May – 11 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5108 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … a specimen (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and second …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin, [18 June 1866] . In 1866, the first Monday in May was 7 May. William Erasmus Darwin lived in Southampton, where he was a partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank. CD became interested in Rhamnus (buckthorn) in 1861, when Asa Gray …
From George Maw 18 June 1866
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5124 |
From Asa Gray 6 November [1866]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5268 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
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Gray, Asa | (7) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Hotham, Harriet | (1) |
Lubbock, Harriet | (1) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (10) |
Murray, John (b) | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …