From E. A. Darwin to Moncure Daniel Conway 9 November 1863
Summary
CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4333 |
From W. E. Darwin 17 and 20 May [1863]
Summary
Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 and 20 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4168F |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
Matches: 3 hits
From W. E. Darwin 23 July [1863]
Summary
Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4251F |
From W. E. Darwin 22 April [1863]
Summary
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … bugloss; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] ). Henrietta …
- … E. Darwin, 1 May [1863] (this volume, Supplement). CD’s interest in Corydalis (the genus of fumeworts) may have related to his investigation of pelorism in some species of Corydalis , and whether it was adaptive or a case of reversion (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
From W. E. Darwin [28 June 1863?]
Summary
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 June 1863?] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894F |
From E. A. Darwin to M. D. Conway 11 November 1863
Summary
Mrs Darwin has written that CD is no better, and visitors have been forbidden.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4338 |
From L. E. Becker 23–4 May [1863]
Summary
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23–4 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4182 |
To Hugh Falconer 20 [January 1863]
Summary
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3928 |
To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 5 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, Appendix VII). The publisher’s marked copy of the Athenæum at the City University, London, reveals the author to have been Owen. Owen had taken the passage quoted from CD’s letter to the Athenæum of 18 April [1863]. CD refers to Lamarck 1801 , 1809, and 1815–22, E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1829 , [Chambers] 1844 , and C. Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
| letter | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Sabine, Edward | (1) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Sabine, Edward | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
