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 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 |
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- … 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 |
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- … 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, …
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