From E. A. Darwin 30 June [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4548 |
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 April 1863
Summary
Observations on Catasetum.
Figs require insects in order to set seed.
Author: | Hermann Crüger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 276, DAR 205.8: 68 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4124 |
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 11, letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and 21 May [1863] , and …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 21). He also sent …
- … 12 June 1865 (see Freeman 1977 , p. 117). In a missing letter to Scott (see n. 16, above), CD probably discussed his observations on the cleistogamic flowers of Leersia oryzoides (see letter from John Scott, 21 …
From Frank Chance [before 25 April 1871]
Summary
His beard is darker than his hair, an exception to CD’s rule in Descent [2: 319]. Encloses sample of his hair, beard, and whiskers.
Author: | Frank Chance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7522 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 October 1874
Summary
Discusses the powers of digestion of Drosera and why certain substances produce less excitement in the plant than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9678 |
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
From Hermann Crüger 8 August 1863
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Ficus experiments confirm CD’s supposition that insects visit Melastoma for nectar, but HC thinks pollen-seekers fertilise the flowers.
Maranta fertilisation.
Author: | Hermann Crüger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 277, 277/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4265 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 . See letter to …
- … Catasetum with his letter of 21 January 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD’s note is on a …
- … letters from Hermann Crüger , 23 February 1863 and n. 6, and 23 April 1863 . Crüger reported his observations on Catasetum in his letter of 21 January 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 June 1876
Summary
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10534 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267 |
To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 February 1863
Summary
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
Author: | Hermann Crüger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4008 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for specimens [of insects].
Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.
Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10913 |
To C. G. Semper [after 6 December 1878]
Summary
Gives CGS permission to use his letters in any way he thinks fit.
Discusses the direct effect of external conditions as an agent of change in organisms; has encountered many cases since the publication of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | [after 6 Dec 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 120v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11777 |
From W. W. Keen 26 September 1873
Summary
Sends corrections of Descent and Expression.
Author: | William Williams Keen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 24–5, DAR 169: 2, and Expression 2d ed., p. 169 n. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9072 |
From Caroline Darwin 29 December [1835]
Summary
CD’s fame is spreading: she quotes Henslow ["Letters to Professor Henslow" (1835), Collected papers 1: 3–16], and a passage in the Athenæum.
Adds news of family and friends.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec [1835] |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-291 |
Darwin, C. R. | (110) |
Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
Scott, John | (8) |
Darwin, Emma | (7) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (105) |
Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
Scott, John | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Müller, Fritz | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (214) |
Hooker, J. D. | (47) |
Scott, John | (18) |
Müller, Fritz | (13) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
1835 | (1) |
1836 | (2) |
1840 | (1) |
1842 | (2) |
1844 | (1) |
1845 | (2) |
1846 | (1) |
1847 | (1) |
1848 | (1) |
1855 | (1) |
1856 | (3) |
1857 | (2) |
1858 | (2) |
1859 | (3) |
1860 | (6) |
1861 | (6) |
1862 | (20) |
1863 | (29) |
1864 | (16) |
1865 | (25) |
1866 | (13) |
1867 | (7) |
1868 | (8) |
1869 | (5) |
1870 | (2) |
1871 | (6) |
1872 | (5) |
1873 | (6) |
1874 | (17) |
1875 | (5) |
1876 | (2) |
1877 | (2) |
1878 | (5) |
1879 | (3) |
1880 | (4) |
1881 | (6) |