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To Charles Lyell   [22 November 1866 – 14 December 1871]

Summary

CD asks if he can call tomorrow (Friday) at 9: 30, and offers to come on Saturday if that would suit CL better.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [22 Nov 1866 – 14 Dec 1871]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13825G

To J. D. Hooker   1 November [1866]

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Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.

Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 304
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5262

To Thomas Laxton   3 November [1866]

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Has examined TL’s crossed peas. Observes that in several lots crossed peas are smooth, like paternal stock, not wrinkled like maternal stock. Is this a result of mere variation, peculiar culture, or pollen of the father?

Encloses queries [missing].

Intends planting peas at once if TL approves.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Laxton
Date:  3 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5267

To W. E. Darwin   8 November [1866]

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Tells WED of a change in his will.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  8 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 120
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5271

To J. V. Carus   10 November 1866

Summary

Expresses gratification that JVC is to undertake new translation and revision of German edition of the Origin.

Has heard many complaints about Bronn’s translation. JVC would be justified in omitting Bronn’s appendix.

Suggests additions and changes, including reference to C. W. v. Nägeli’s Entstehung und Begriff [1865], though he disagrees with it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  10 Nov 1866
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5273

To J. T. Moggridge   13 November [1866]

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Discusses fertilisation of peas by bees. Asks for seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  13 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 375
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5277

To John Lubbock   15 November 1866

Summary

Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  15 Nov 1866
Classmark:  DAR 261.7: 1 (EH 88205926)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5278

To John Higgins   [16 November 1866]

Summary

[Acknowledges receipt of £252 19s. 2d.]

Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Higgins
Date:  [16 Nov 1866]
Classmark:  Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5279F

To J. D. Hooker   20 November [1866]

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Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".

Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 305
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5281

To J. V. Carus   21 November 1866

Summary

Answers some question about species.

Sends biographical sketch.

Now considers that a note on Nägeli would have to be too long to include. Discusses his differences with Nägeli. Cannot believe in spontaneous generation. At present the principle of life seems to him beyond the confines of science.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  21 Nov 1866
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 4–5a); DAR 143: 212
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5282

To J. D. Hooker   [23 November 1866]

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Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [23 Nov 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 306
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5284

To James Shaw   24 November [1866]

Summary

Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Shaw
Date:  24 Nov [1866]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5284A

To H. G. H. Norman   [after 30 November 1866]

Summary

Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Herbert George Henry Norman
Date:  [after 30 Nov 1866]
Classmark:  Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5287A

To A. R. Wallace   [23 November 1866?]

Summary

Will call on Wallace tomorrow (Saturday) at 10.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  [23 Nov 1866?]
Classmark:  Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (29 April 2000)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7512F

To H. A. Huxley   [before 25 November 1866?]

Summary

Asks if he may call on Sunday at 10 o’clock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:  [before 25 Nov 1866?]
Classmark:  Janet Huxley (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2797F
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