To a Bookseller 4 March [1860]
Summary
Orders J. B. Jukes’s Student’s manual of geology [1857] and Macmillan’s Magazine (Dec 1859).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bookseller. |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 1492) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2721 |
To Octavian Blewitt 27 March [1860]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2733F |
To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
To Asa Gray 2 March [1860]
Summary
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2718 |
To Williams and Norgate? 6 March [1860]
Summary
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2723 |
To Charles Lyell 12 [March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 12 [Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5032 |
To Joseph Prestwich 12 March [1860]
Summary
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2729 |
From Williams & Norgate 29 March 1860
Summary
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
| Author: | Williams & Norgate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 91: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2735 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2675 |
To James Lamont 5 March [1860]
Summary
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2722 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lamont, James …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lamont, Augusta. 1950. Records and recollections of Sir James Lamont of Knockdow. Privately printed. PLACE OF PUBLICATION? Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
To Frances Mosley Wedgwood 5 March [1860 or later]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310F |
To Charles Lyell [24 March – 3 April 1860]
Summary
Discusses letter of recommendation for Edward Blyth.
Sedgwick’s review of the Origin in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860].
Mentions breaks between geological formations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2734 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 March [1860]
Summary
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2720 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [March 1860]
Summary
JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2730 |
To W. R. Greg 21 March [1860?]
Summary
Is glad to read Greg’s remarks on Origin. Discusses MS Greg has sent for review on proportion of sexes at birth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (December 1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732F |
To T. H. Huxley 20 March [1860]
Summary
Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 160) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3093 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
From Frederick Wollaston Hutton 8 March 1860
Summary
Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
| Author: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2727 |
To H. G. Bronn 21 March [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732 |
| letter | (27) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
