To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
To J. B. Innes 22 December [1862]
Summary
Family and local news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3872 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
From Mary Butler [before 25 December 1862]
Summary
J. P. Thom [of Home News] must change his position because of his health. Asks if CD can help find him a new situation.
| Author: | Mary Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 392 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3838 |
From George Howard Darwin [12 June 1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598F |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records on 12 June 1862: ‘Lenny came home with sc. fever’; George’s letter was probably sent with Leonard. Edward Augustus Williams was a surgeon in practice with Charles Morgan in Bromley, Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862); he attended various members of the Darwin household between 1845 and 1863 ( …
To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To H. W. Bates 11 June [1862]
Summary
Encloses a question [missing] concerning language [from Hensleigh Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 11 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.284) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3596 |
To H. W. Bates 15 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for news of HWB and his book.
There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.
Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3764 |
To Asa Gray 23 November [1862]
Summary
Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3820 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin of [13 November 1862] (DAR 219.1: 69). In addition, the Wellesley index reports that a cheque was paid to F. J. Wedgwood for a contribution to this number of the magazine. Bates 1862a . CD refers to Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ), which was not published until 6 February 1863 ( …
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1862]
Summary
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3747 |
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- … 1863 are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See also n. 5, below). Falconer 1863 . See letter from Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] . Falconer 1863 , p. 80. See also letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] . CD met Lyell in London on 30 September 1862 (see letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] ). According to Emma Darwin’ …
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