To George Cupples 29 May [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 29 May [1868] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6214F |
From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker 25 October 1868
Summary
His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
Author: | Sven Nilsson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6430 |
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- … 1868 Professor! I have written to two of my friends who have personal knowledge of Lapland, to obtain the information that M r . Darwin wanted about Reindeer Antlers &c …
- … 1868. Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les renseignements qu’a souhaitté M r . Darwin, sur les Cornes du Renne &c …
From J. J. Weir 31 July 1872
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8440 |
From G. R. Gray 8 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6105 |
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From Charles Pritchard 24 January 1868
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5797 |
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- … Darwin, Accept my most hearty congratulations on your Son’s grand Success. Your delight & that of M rs Darwin must indeed be enviably great. Omnes omnia bona dicere. May your Son’s entire career be after the model of this beginning Believe me | My dear M r Darwin | Yours sincerely | C. Pritchard Jan 24. 1868 | …
To John Power 3 December 1878
Summary
Petition Cambridge University that candidates for an Honour degree may be relieved from the obligation of passing an examination in Greek.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Power |
Date: | 3 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Reporter, 7 December 1878, pp. 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768G |
From F. F. Hallett 21 May 1875
Summary
Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.
Author: | Frederic Francis Hallett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9988 |
From E. L. Layard [September–October 1856]
Author: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept–Oct 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 185–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1897 |
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To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]
Summary
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2335 |
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To George Moultrie Salt 5 February [1868]
Summary
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Moultrie Salt |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839G |
From William Herbert to J. S. Henslow 5 April 1839
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions on plant hybridisation and laws of inheritance. Rejects predominant transmission of characters by established forms. Males show predominance, but congeniality of parents’ constitution to climate and soil more important. No correlation between hybridisation and variability, cultivation, and geographical distribution. Rejects reversion.
Describes experiments in Hippeastrum in which pollen from another species proved more fertile than plant’s own pollen.
Did not intend to say that crossing is inimical to fertility.
Author: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 5 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-503 |
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From Alexander Shaw to Marion Bell 27 November 1868
Summary
Asks MB to forward information to CD regarding works dealing with expression, in particular refers to Sir Charles Bell’s work The nervous system [3d ed. (1836)].
Author: | Alexander Shaw |
Addressee: | Marion Shaw; Marion Bell |
Date: | 27 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6480 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 October 1868
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration. Sexual selection versus natural selection as explanations. ARW continues to argue against sexual selection, saying that natural selection, in keeping the female dull for protection, would account for differences in sexual colouring more effectively than inheritance and partial transmission of sexually selected male colours. Colours of female birds of paradise. Protective coloration. Disagrees with CD on coincidence of hidden nests and bright colours of females.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B68–69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6408 |
From William Masters 8 May 1860
Author: | William Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 166–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2792 |
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To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856]
Summary
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
Date: | 3 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1848 |
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To George Gabriel Stokes [12 February 1863?]
Summary
Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Feb 1863?] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4085 |
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From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
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To Laurence Edmondston 2 August [1857]
Summary
Thanks for rabbit.
Are there dun-coloured ponies in Shetlands? Are they striped?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 2 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131 |
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From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
Author: | Thomas Hutton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
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To Thomas Rivers 11 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for "rich and valuable" letter [missing].
Has read TR’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Seedling fruits – plums", (1863): 27] – "a treasure to me".
Questions about seedling peaches that approach almonds.
Asks whether TR has ever observed varieties of plants growing close to other varieties for several generations without being affected by crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 11 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3910 |
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