To John Lubbock [2 August 1861]
Summary
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [2 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3225 |
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 October [1861]
Summary
Tells of a shooting competition at Down.
Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294 |
To Charles William Crocker 18 May [1861]
Summary
Describes results of his experiments with hollyhocks. Some varieties breed true even though growing near others. This suggests that their pollen is "pre-potent" over that of other varieties, which is not the case with most plants. Asks some questions on which he would be glad to have correspondent work. [See also 3170.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles William Crocker |
Date: | 18 May [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3151 |
To Journal of Horticulture [17 May 1861]
Summary
Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].
Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.
CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".
Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17 May 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3162 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
To W. E. Darwin 12 October [1861]
Summary
Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.
Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3284 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 5 December [1861]
Summary
Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].
Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.
CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.
CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 5 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3339 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
To Asa Gray 26–7 February [1861]
Summary
Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26–7 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3073 |
From Asa Gray 31 December 1861
Summary
Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.
Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3354 |
To T. C. Eyton 12 [May 1861 – April 1863]
Summary
Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.
Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13804 |
To H. W. Bates 25 September [1861]
Summary
Recommends publisher for HWB; admires J. van Voorst but suggests Murray.
In reply to HWB’s letter [missing], comments on neuters and mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 25 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3266 |
To Luke Hindmarsh 12 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Luke Hindmarsh |
Date: | 12 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3146 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 th . Dear Sir I thank you sincerely for your prompt and great kindness, and return the letter, which I have been very glad to see and have had copied. The increase is more rapid than I anticipated; but it seems rather conjectural; I had hoped that in so interesting a case some exact record had been kept. The number of births or calves reared till they followed their mothers would perhaps have been best datum. From Mr. Hardy’s letter I infer then 10 …
From H. W. Bates 30 September 1861
Summary
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3271 |
To Asa Gray 11 April [1861]
Summary
Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.
Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.
J. S. Henslow is dying.
Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".
Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3115 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10), Gray informed CD about this transaction: ‘I took about £50 … which
〈 Ap〉 pleton & Co sent me for〈 your〉 book, to pay the printers with’. In May 1860, CD had received £21 17 s . 6 d . Gray had negotiated on CD’s behalf with the publisher, who agreed to grant CD author’s royalties on the edition (see Correspondence vol. 8). The United States of America was on the brink of civil war. Hostilities broke out on 12 …
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 March [1861] ). There is an annotated copy of this paper and a copy of S. G. Morton 1850b in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The third pamphlet has not been identified. The letter from Gray has not been found. For the information CD sought from Gray concerning American species of Cypripedium , see the letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1861] . For Gray’s response, see Correspondence vol. 10, …
letter | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |