To Edward Cresy 15 September [1862]
Summary
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 322 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3724 |
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
To Asa Gray [3–]4 September [1862]
Summary
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | [3–]4 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3710 |
To W. D. Fox 12 September [1862]
Summary
WDF’s information on turkeys will be useful when CD resumes his half-finished volume [see Variation 1: 292].
Illness in the family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 134) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3717 |
To John Lubbock 5 September [1862]
Summary
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3713 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
