To Francis Darwin [after 12 October 1866]
Summary
Instructions on paying a bill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13793 |
To Ernst Haeckel [20 October 1866]
Summary
Explains how to get to Down for visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [20 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5224 |
To George Bentham 1 October 1866
Summary
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5225 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
To F. T. Buckland 2 October 1866
Summary
Declines contributing to Land and Water. Asks if Frank Buckland can insert a question about the feet of otter hounds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 2 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227F |
To J. D. Hooker [4 October 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5228 |
To Charles Lyell 9 October [1866]
Summary
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5236 |
To Charles Lyell 12 October [1866]
Summary
More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.
Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].
Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.321) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5239 |
To Charles Pritchard 12 October [1866]
Summary
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Pritchard |
Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5240 |
To Land and Water [2 October 1866]
Summary
Requests information about the feet of otter-hounds. Is the membrane between the toes more largely developed than in other hounds? To which part or joint of the toes does the skin extend? Is it hollowed out? [There is a hand-written copy of this letter in Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 1: A0444 S12450001). The handwriting is not CD’s: it may be a copy made for the printer, or maybe by a reader of the magazine.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Land and Water |
Date: | [2 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Land and Water, 6 October 1866, p. 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5240A |
To Thomas Rivers 13 October [1866]
Summary
Greatly interested in case of purple nuts but, after seeing TR’s specimens, dares not trust his case. Wishes he lived near TR or were strong enough to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 13 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5241 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 October [1866]
Summary
Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5244 |
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 |
To George Brettingham Sowerby Jr 19 October [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
Date: | 19 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 21–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5250 |
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 [21 October 1866]
Summary
Introduces Ernst Haeckel.
Lyell sent same chapters to CD, who thinks them very good but is not convinced that changes of land and water will do all he thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5257 |
To Thomas Laxton 31 October [1866]
Summary
Thanks for box of crossed peas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Laxton |
Date: | 31 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5260 |
To E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13863 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [19? October 1866]
Summary
Mary Somerville may use diagrams from Orchids [in her Molecular and microscopic science (1869)], but permission should be obtained from John Murray.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [19? Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5249 |
letter | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Horner, M. E. | (1) |
Land and Water | (1) |
Laxton, Thomas | (1) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |