To ? 2 May [1869 or later]
Summary
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 May [1869-82] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866A |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
To the Athenæum 19 June 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 19 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787 |
To ? 23 June 1869
Summary
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6795 |
To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |
To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
| Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869]
Summary
Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Scientific Opinion |
| Date: | [before 20 Oct 1869] |
| Classmark: | Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6442 |
From John Lubbock [after 5 August 1869]
Summary
Visiting arrangements.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Aug 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 May 1869]
Summary
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519F |
From E. A. Darwin [after 21 April 1869]
Summary
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 21 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6521 |
From George Henslow [after 22 February 1869]
Summary
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6522 |
From James Paget [1869]
Summary
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1869] |
| Classmark: | Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6533 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 [November 1869 or later]
Summary
Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Nov 1869 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6539 |
To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
From Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky [January–March 1869]
Summary
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan–Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (12) |
| Cupples, George | (10) |
| Tait, W. C. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (289) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
| Carus, J. V. | (9) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
