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To J. D. Hooker   29 July [1860]

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Casual observations on Drosera.

Wants to know author of good review of Origin in London Review [& Wkly J. Polit. 1 (1860): 11–12, 32–3, 58–9].

Athenæum will reprint Gray’s discussion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 July [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2880

Matches: 7 hits

  • … 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … Henry Holland was called to Hartfield on 26 July 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
  • Emma Darwin described his visit in a letter to Mary Elizabeth Lyell , written on 28  …
  • … that we feel very grateful. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 177). The ‘desponding medical man’ …
  • … seemed well worthy of investigation. Emma Darwin described CD’s work in a letter to Mary …
  • … end in proving it to be an animal. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 177). Malaxis is a genus of …

To J. D. Hooker   [4 July 1860]

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CD will visit Kew on way home from E. W. Lane’s hydropathy establishment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [4 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2858

Matches: 3 hits

  • … the Wednesday following CD’s letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [3 July 1860] . Emma Darwin took …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin and the other children to …
  • … Hartfield on 3 July 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …

To J. D. Hooker   [3 July 1860]

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Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".

Plans to visit Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [3 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2856

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • Emma Darwin wrote in her diary on 3 July 1860 ‘came to Hartfield. ’ The house of Emma’ …
  • … for all who are sick or sorry’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 176). See letter to J.  D.   …

To Charles Lyell   28 August [1860]

Summary

The adultery of Lady [Harriet Spencer] Grey and Captain Keppell.

A new species of elephant discovered by Hugh Falconer.

Comments on excellent review by Asa Gray [Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): 229–39].

Still believes dogs descended from several wild stocks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  28 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.224)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2900

Matches: 5 hits

  • Emma Darwin’s letter to Mary Elizabeth Lyell , …
  • … dated 28 August [1860], is printed in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 177. …
  • Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD went to London on 21 August 1860. George Grey , who …
  • … George Grey and the Keppel affair. Historical Studies 16 (1974–5): 192–215. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …

To Daniel Oliver   23 [October 1860]

Summary

Compliments DO on his wealth of information.

Henrietta’s relapse.

Thanks for extract on Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  23 [Oct 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 21 (EH 88206005)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2959

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Dated by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s relapse (see n.  3, below). …
  • … See preceding letter. From entries in Emma Darwin’s diary, it …
  • … appears that Henrietta Emma Darwin became ill with a stomach complaint late on Sunday …

To J. D. Hooker   11 May [1860]

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Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.

Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 May [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2795

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … It is possible, however, that Henrietta Emma Darwin was suffering from typhoid fever, at …
  • … be a variety or derivative of typhus. In Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 176, Henrietta Litchfield …

To Charles Lyell   12 September [1860]

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Additional response, at length, to CL’s criticisms of natural selection. Comments on failure of rodents to develop in Australia. Argues that most species become extinct and do not develop. Discusses variability, especially variability of rudimentary organs. Extinction among ammonites. Survival of Ornithorhynchus. Descent of marsupials and placentals. Emphasises embryological argument for descent of species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  12 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.226)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2915

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … was probably enclosed in a letter from Emma Darwin to Mary Elizabeth Lyell (see letter to …
  • … 27 August 1845; it is printed in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 96. Emma had quoted some remarks …
  • Emma’s & returned them to her. — Etty has a wish to try the sea, & we all start there in about a week. —   I have been of late shamefully idle; ie observing instead of writing & how much better fun observing is than writing. — Yours affect | C.  Darwin

To J. D. Hooker   20 May [1860]

Summary

Gives references to experiments on cowslip for W. H. Harvey.

Suggests possible sources of error in results. Feels evidence is overwhelming that cowslip and primrose are varieties.

Has received laudatory verses on the Origin from some botanist; suspects Francis Boott.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 May [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2811

Matches: 3 hits

  • … see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March [1860] . Henrietta Emma Darwin had been very ill …
  • … since 28 April 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
  • … Dated by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s continuing fever. William Henry Harvey …

To W. E. Darwin   26 [October 1860]

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Concern over Henrietta’s illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  26 [Oct 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2963

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Dated by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s relapse (see n.   …
  • … 2, below). Emma Darwin’s diary chronicles Henrietta’s attack, which began on 21 October. …

To T. H. Huxley   1 November [1860]

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THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.

CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.

Henrietta’s serious illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  1 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2972

Matches: 3 hits

  • … to Eastbourne to examine Henrietta Darwin on 29 October 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
  • … Dated by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s illness (see n.  7, below). Pithecoid: ‘ …
  • … Huxley had recently become senior editor. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary on 29 October  …

To Charles Lyell   12 [March 1860]

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Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  12 [Mar 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5032

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Lyell had visited Down from 9 to 12 March 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Probably a …
  • … reference to Georgina and Ellen Harriet Tollet , childhood friends of Emma Darwin . …
  • Emma recorded in her diary on 10 March 1860 that the ‘Tollets’ came and stayed until 14 March. CD’s sister Emily Catherine Darwin

To W. D. Fox   18 October [1860]

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The hybrid case is most curious, if true. So many have tried to get hybrids from hare and rabbit.

Has done little regular work – correspondence on Origin has been gigantic.

Has amused himself working on power of Drosera to catch flies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  18 Oct [1860]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2953

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 105 n.  7. The Darwins took Henrietta Emma Darwin to Eastbourne on 22 September 1860  to …
  • … following a long illness (‘Journal’; Appendix II). In a letter from Emma Darwin to …
  • … William Erasmus Darwin probably written in September 1860 (DAR 210.6), Emma said of …

To J. S. Henslow   9 February [1860]

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Sends directions for JSH’s journey to Bromley and Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  9 Feb [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A63–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2691

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Entries in Emma Darwin’s diary record that Henslow visited Down from 14 to 16 February  …

To Asa Gray   24 October [1860]

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Has been consulting with John Murray about the possibility of publishing AG’s three Atlantic Monthly articles [see 2910] as a pamphlet, but has been strongly advised against it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  24 Oct [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (33)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2961

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  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin fell ill …
  • … on 21 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1860] . The …

To Hugh Falconer   12 July [1860]

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Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.

CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Falconer
Date:  12 July [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 144
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2865

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  • … 1860] . The Darwins had taken Henrietta Emma Darwin to convalesce at the home of Sarah …

To Edward Cresy   25 August [1860]

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Invites EC to visit. Wants to discuss education of his sons.

Daughter [Henrietta] has been very ill for 15 weeks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  25 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  Private collection
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2899

Matches: 2 hits

  • … summer of 1860. See J.  R.  Moore 1977 . Emma Darwin’s diary records that Edward Cresy and …
  • … The year is given by an entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (see n.  3, below). CD may have …

To J. S. Henslow   29 January [1860]

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Measles has ben running through the house, but they are now quit of it.

Discusses plans for JSH to visit; eager to discuss Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  29 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  RR Auction (dealers) (8 December 2021, lot 119)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2666F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … by Horace , Elizabeth , and Francis (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Henslow visited Down …
  • … in London from 6 to 11 February. (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). ) The two last chapters …

To Emma Gärtner   9 June [1860]

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Has long venerated her father [Carl F. von Gärtner]. Looks forward to reading his life. CD will do everything he can to make Gärtner’s name more generally known.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Gärtner
Date:  9 June [1860]
Classmark:  Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2827

Matches: 4 hits

  • … and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 June [1860] Emma Gärtner …
  • Darwin, C. R. Gärtner, Emma
  • … notice, inscribed by Emma Gärtner , is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.   …
  • Emma Gärtner, 14 July [1860] . CD studied Gärtner’s works on hybridisation very closely during the 1850s. His annotated copies of Gärtner 1844  and 1849 are in the Darwin

To W. E. Darwin   [8 December 1860]

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Asks identity of [Henry] Fawcett, who wrote a capital article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [3 (1860): 81–92], "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [8 Dec 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3014

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  • … E.  Darwin, [November 1857] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Emily Catherine Darwin …
  • … the Christmas holidays on 13 December ( Emma Darwin’s diary). William had begun to paint …

To William Erasmus Darwin   [4 March 1860]

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Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.

Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [4 Mar 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 55
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2675

Matches: 4 hits

  • … brother Montagu, who was 18 years old. Emma Darwin’s diary records that she went to London …
  • … Museum, Down House. CD refers to Henrietta Emma Darwin and Leonard Darwin , and to Joseph …
  • … the London physician Edward Headland . Emma Darwin’s diary records that Charles and Mary …
  • Emma probably refers to her childhood friends, Georgina and Ellen Harriet Tollet . See letter to H.  G.  Bronn, [ c. 25 February 1860]. [Wollaston] 1860 . Andrew Murray read a paper giving his criticisms of Origin at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 20 February 1860 ( Murray 1860a ). See also letters to Andrew Murray , 28 April [1860] and 28 [April 1860] . There are two copies of Murray’s review in the Darwin
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