To Charles Kingsley [17 June 1865]
Summary
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877 |
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865
Summary
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4845 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
From George Maw 1 June 1865
Summary
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4847 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 June [1865]
Summary
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4848 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
To John Murray 2 June [1865]
Summary
There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4850 |
To [Richard Kippist] 4 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; mentions borrowing and returning volumes. Orders a volume containing a paper by R. J. H. Dutrochet ["Recherches sur la volubilité des tiges de certains végétaux et sur la cause de ce phénomène", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 295–303].
Notes that his health is better.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 4 June [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.309) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4851 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
To George Maw 4 June [1865]
Summary
Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 4 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4853 |
To John Chapman 7 June 1865
Summary
Reports on progress of ice treatment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 7 June 1865 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4854 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From Charles Kingsley 10 June 1865
Summary
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4857 |
To John Lubbock 11 June [1865]
Summary
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 11 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 7 (EH 88206456) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4858 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 17 June 1865]
Summary
Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].
Wife improving.
Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.
Not an admirer of Kingsley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4859 |
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
From Charles Kingsley 14 June 1865
Summary
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4861 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4862 |
letter | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kingsley, Charles | (2) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kingsley, Charles | (2) |
Chapman, John | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Kingsley, Charles | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Maw, George | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Chapman, John | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Naudin, C. V. | (1) |