From Asa Gray 25 May 1868
Summary
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6206 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Gray visited England from mid-September until mid-November 1868 (see letter from Asa …
- … Gray, 17 September 1868 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 November 1868 ). They visited …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] . …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 2. Gray’s review in Nation is [A. Gray] …
- … Variation , published by Orange Judd & Co. See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. …
- … 3. See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. …
- … 5. See letter to Asa Gray, 8 May [1868] and n. 6. …
- … Massachusetts] 25 May, 1868 My Dear Darwin, I want to write you a long letter—but the time …
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1868
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5833 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … vol. 24, Supplement, letter to Asa Gray, 9 February [1868] ). The dog was Max and had been …
- … this letter and the letter to Asa Gray, 9 February [1868] ( Correspondence vol. 24, …
- … Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Asa Gray, 25 February [1868] ). This letter may be …
- … second printing of Variation in his letter of 9 February [1868] ( Correspondence vol. 24, …
- … See Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Asa Gray, 24 February 1868 . CD had told Gray …
From Asa Gray 17 September 1868
Summary
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6370 |
From Asa Gray 11 October [1868]
Summary
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6931 |
To Asa Gray 8 May [1868]
Summary
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6167 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1868
Summary
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6179 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
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- … Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Asa Gray, 25 February [1868] ). The enclosure has not …
- … Correspondence vol. 16, letter from John Murray, 6 February [1868] ); a second printing of …
- … letter to Gray of 31 March 1867 ( Correspondence vol. 15). Expression was published in 1872 ( Freeman 1977 ). George Howard Darwin was second wrangler at Cambridge in 1868, …
- … 1868 ( Freeman 1977 ). CD began sending out a standard list of queries on expression by December 1866 (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter …
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
From Asa Gray 25 February [1868]
Summary
AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5928 |
From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
From Asa Gray 24 February 1868
Summary
AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].
Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5921 |
To Asa Gray 17 September [1861]
Summary
U. S. politics and relations with England.
Wants examples of dimorphism similar to Primula.
Structure and function of Spiranthes flower.
Observations and experiments on Drosera.
CD’s views on design.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3256 |
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … until 1868, when he sent him a printed copy (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to G. …
- … 1868] ). CD’s M and N notebooks ( Notebooks ), written between 1838 and 1840, and concerned in particular with human beings, contain notes on expression. See Barrett 1980 for additional notes. See also Browne 1985 . Expression was published in 1872. CD refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker ; see letter …
From Asa Gray 26 March 1867
Summary
Has printed copies of CD’s queries [on expression] and will distribute them.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5462 |
From Asa Gray 21 November 1870
Summary
Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B70–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7378 |
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
To Asa Gray 4 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s trouble about new edition of Origin.
Will be printing his new book [Variation] at the end of the year.
[Forwarded by AG, with covering note, to Mr Fields of Ticknor & Fields.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5177 |
From Asa Gray 18 July 1866
Summary
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 149–150); DAR 159: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5160 |
To Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
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| Gray, Asa | (17) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Gray, Asa | (16) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
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- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 …
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
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- … My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is …
5873_1488
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
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- … From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Religion
Summary
Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ‘ Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
Controversy
Summary
The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … Disagreement & Respect | Conduct of Debate | Darwin & Wallace The best-known …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
