To Henrietta Emma Darwin 26 July [1867]
Summary
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 26 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5585 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin? [1867–72]
Summary
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7061 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
Summary
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A …
- … Darwin family coachman at The Mount, Shrewsbury ( Correspondence vol. 1). He lived with the family until Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s death in October 1866, after which he lived in a cottage near The Mount ( Emma Darwin ( …
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 14 January 1867
Summary
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5360 |
To J. D. Hooker [12] May [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12] May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5532 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Summary
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
From John Brodie Innes 1 September [1867]
Summary
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5205 |
From Francis Parker 22 April 1867
Summary
Sends £600 bequeathed by Susan Darwin to CD’s younger children.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5510 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horace Darwin . .... 100 Henrietta Emma Darwin … 100 Elizabeth Darwin .... . . 100 Cha …
- … Darwin Esq re . Down Bromley Kent. Extract from the Will of the late Miss Susan Elizabeth Darwin dated 1 st . November 1865— “I give and bequeath to my nephews George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin Leonard Darwin, and Horace Darwin and my nieces Henrietta Emma Darwin …
From George Henslow 15 August 1867
Summary
Proposes writing a note for Linnean Society ["Note on the structure of Genista tinctoria", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 468], in part using information CD gave him at Down.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5606 |
To Stephen Paul Engleheart? [April 1867?]
Summary
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
| Date: | [Apr 1867?] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5385 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
From Hermann Müller 23 October 1867
Summary
Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].
Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5657 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
To Edward Blyth [19 February 1867]
Summary
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5407 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 March [1867]
Summary
Suggests change in sentence of JDH’s "Insular floras" to make meaning clear.
Naudin’s letter about hybrids.
Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 13f–g |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5451 |
To John Smith 26 December [1867]
Summary
CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Smith |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5740 |
To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
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