To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … DAR 185: 84 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [9 May 1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863] …
- … and this volume, letters to Thomas Rivers , 7 January [1863] and 1 February [1863] . …
- … this letter and the letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] (see n. 2, below), and by …
- … him in the summer (see letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] ). Rivers, a nurseryman …
- … CD’s greenhouse in January (see letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 January 1863 , and letter …
- … species’ (see letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January [1863] ). CD was interested in obtaining …
- … Rivers, 25 January [1863] ). CD wished to compare the stones of these two varieties of peach with almond stones to test Thomas …
To Thomas Rivers 17 August [1863]
Summary
The almond-tree TR gave him produced no fruit, but the Chinese double peach has three. Asks for ripe almond fruits and any odd peaches, to compare the stones.
Asks about modification in fruit or foliage in any fruit-trees from being grafted,
and about seedlings of pears and wheat said to have been found in hedges and woods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 17 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4270 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … DAR 185: 85 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Aug [1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … To Thomas Rivers 17 August [1863] …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 January 1863 . See …
- … in the part of the letter from Thomas Rivers, [3 February 1863] , that is now missing. CD …
- … letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 January 1863 , and letters to Thomas Rivers , 25 …
- … 2: 19. See also letters to Thomas Rivers , [14 February 1863] and nn. 3 and 6, and 5 …
- … January [1863] , 5 March [1863] , and [9 May 1863] . See letter to Thomas Rivers, [9 May …
To Thomas Rivers 25 January [1863]
Summary
Has received the two trees sent by TR. Is anxious to see the fruit of the double peach.
The Origin is being sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 25 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1086) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3942 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1086) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Jan [1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … To Thomas Rivers 25 January [1863] …
- … letter and the letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 January 1863 . See letter from Thomas Rivers, …
- … 1863] , CD offered him one of his publications. See also letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 …
To Thomas Rivers 5 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on weeping trees; asks for a few weeping elm seeds.
The double peach is in flower; the almond has not flowered; will beg a specimen of fruit later.
Has been unwell.
Tells of Hooker’s admiration for TR’s articles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4023 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Thomas Rivers 5 March [1863] …
- … Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Mar [1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … letter and the letter to Thomas Rivers, 1 February [1863] , and by the reference to CD’s …
- … refers to plants sent to him by Rivers in January 1863 (see letters to Thomas Rivers , 11 …
- … his reply of [3 February 1863]. See letter to Thomas Rivers, [14 February 1863] and n. …
- … January 1863 ). See also letter to Thomas Rivers, [9 May 1863] , n. 4. CD refers to James …
- … 1863] , 15 January [1863] , and 25 January [1863] , and letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 …
To Thomas Rivers 17 [January 1863]
Summary
Can TR distinguish generally, always, or never, a nectarine-tree from a peach-tree before it flowers or before it fruits? He wants to quote TR’s answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 17 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 21 July 1989, item 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3922 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Thomas Rivers 17 [January 1863] …
- … 61, 21 July 1989, item 50) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 [Jan 1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … relationship between this letter and the letters to Thomas Rivers , 11 January [1863] and …
- … 1862] ). See also letters to Thomas Rivers , 7 January [1863] , 11 January [1863] , and …
- … 1863] . In December 1862, CD began writing chapter 11 of Variation , dealing with bud-variation, and initiated a correspondence with Rivers, a renowned Hertfordshire nurseryman (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Thomas …
To Thomas Rivers [14 February 1863]
Summary
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | [14 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3982 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988) Charles Robert Darwin Down [14 Feb 1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … To Thomas Rivers [14 February 1863] …
- … weeping habit (see Variation 2: 19). See letter from Thomas Rivers, [3 February 1863] . …
- … 2, below); in 1863, 14 February was a Saturday. Letter from Thomas Rivers, [3 February …
From Thomas Rivers 30 January 1863
Summary
Asks CD’s views on TR’s observations that leaves breathe from their under-surfaces.
Peach-trees in hothouses cannot be kept in health unless fresh air is admitted so as to make its way under the leaves.
Continues his observations on the effect of environment on men – those migrating to America gradually assuming Indian-like features.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3955 |
To Thomas Rivers 15 January [1863]
Summary
Particularly interested in TR’s information about peaches. Accepts offer of double-flowering peach-trees.
Will build a small hothouse for experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 15 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3918 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Thomas Rivers 26 January 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin.
TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".
His observations on people of different counties.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3946 |
To Thomas Rivers 7 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".
Asks for information about roses.
Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3906 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … DAR 185: 81 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Jan [1863] Thomas Rivers …
- … To Thomas Rivers 7 January [1863] …
- … this letter and the letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] . The letter from Rivers, …
- … citing Rivers. See the letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] and n. 4. The Austrian …
- … 1863, p. 27, where Rivers reiterated his observation; CD’s annotated copy of this issue is in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic Garden. In Variation , CD compared Rivers’s account with Thomas …
From Thomas Rivers [3 February 1863]
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3965 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Thomas Rivers [3 February 1863] …
- … DAR 46.1: 95 Thomas Rivers unstated [3 Feb 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … earlier (see letter from Thomas Rivers, 21 January 1863 ). Some indication of the contents …
- … 1863 to thank him for his assistance with the chapter on bud-variation for Variation (see letter to Thomas Rivers, …
To Thomas Rivers 1 February [1863]
Summary
Answers TR’s query about stomata.
CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3962 |
To Thomas Rivers 11 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for "rich and valuable" letter [missing].
Has read TR’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Seedling fruits – plums", (1863): 27] – "a treasure to me".
Questions about seedling peaches that approach almonds.
Asks whether TR has ever observed varieties of plants growing close to other varieties for several generations without being affected by crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 11 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3910 |
From Thomas Rivers 21 January 1863
Summary
Sends some trees to CD.
Would be pleased to receive the copy of Origin offered by CD as gift.
Will give CD any tree or shrub he may want.
Refers to curious strawberry hybrids noticed in Journal of Horticulture [I. Anderson-Henry, "Crossing strawberries", J. Hortic. n.s. 4 (1863): 45–6].
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3933 |
To Thomas Rivers 28 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for letter [missing] and help.
Asks about the effect said to be produced on the stock by a graft.
Health prevents accepting TR’s invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 28 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879 |
From Thomas Rivers 6 July 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Encloses sketch of a climbing French bean.
Tells of a row of non-climbing haricot beans that in good season put out slender climbing shoots.
He has the peach almond in fruit this season.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4866 |
From Thomas Rivers 17 May 1866
Summary
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5094 |
To John Murray 22 January [1863]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin be sent to Thomas Rivers.
Curious about sale of Orchids. It is too stiff for the public. "If praise from Botanists would sell, it would go off well."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3936 |
From George Maw 25 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4012 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 2 January [1863] , letter to Thomas Rivers, 1 February [1863] , and letter to John Scott, …
- … 1863 ). CD had evidently asked Maw if he could supply examples of bud-variation (see letter to George Maw, 28 February [1863] and n. 2. ) CD had solicited examples of bud-variations from several of his correspondents, including John Scott , Thomas Rivers , …
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
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