From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
From Asa Gray 31 March [1862]
Summary
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3489 |
To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1859]
Summary
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2592 |
From Asa Gray 2–3 July 1862
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2–3 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3637 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1860]
Summary
Asks AG to send his reviews [of Origin] as soon as he has definitely fixed on a title for the pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (J. L. Gray autograph collection 50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3028 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 May [1863]
Summary
CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.
Nägeli on phyllotaxy.
CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4191 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 15 June [1862]
Summary
Refers to his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Asks GHKT to investigate a similar case in Cinchona.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 15 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.278) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3606 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 December [1860]
Summary
Feels his poor stomach "saved" him from overworking his head.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3034 |
From Asa Gray [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861]
Summary
Gives some observations on the sensitivity of Drosera species and comments on cases of "dioecio-dimorphism".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 and 29 Aug 1861 and 2 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242 |
To Asa Gray 23[–4] July [1862]
Summary
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23[–4] July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3662 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] , n. …
- … States (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 19). …
- … 3, and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 and nn. 8 and 9). …
- … Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ). Brace was a philanthropist who worked with the underprivileged children of New York City ( Dupree 1959 , p. 361). He sent CD a copy of his book, The races of the old world. A manual of ethnology in 1863 ( Brace 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … May [1859] and 28 [December 1859] , and to Asa Gray , 11 November [1859] and 24 December [ …
- … Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). Several months earlier CD had read proof-sheets of the concluding section of the paper, sent to him by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … Gray, Asa. 1858–9. Diagnostic characters of new species of phænogamous plants, collected in Japan by Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 …
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
From Asa Gray [2 June 1862]
Summary
Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3588 |
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 July [1863]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for Limnanthemum seed.
Comments on his view of algal reproduction.
Discusses flower of Cassia.
Sends photograph of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 29 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.295) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4256 |
To Asa Gray 25 December 1874
Summary
Read AG’s article [see 9753] on longevity and duration of varieties with great interest.
Death of Mrs Hooker.
Hopes Insectivorous plants will be out in the spring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (110) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9779 |
From J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society 30 June 1858
Summary
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 30 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2299 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (187) |
| Gray, Asa | (47) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
| Gray, Asa | (62) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (54) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (286) |
| Gray, Asa | (109) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (71) |
| Scott, John | (11) |
| Lyell, Charles | (10) |
