To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … proofs of Orchids (see n. 6, below). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that the ‘Boys …
- … Mackintosh Wedgwood. There is an entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on 25 April 1862 …
- … when Joseph Dalton Hooker was also visiting Down House ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Grammar School. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [3 February 1862] (DAR …
- … book (Down House MS), letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [13 December 1862] (DAR …
- … to G. V. Reed, 12 January 1863) . Emma Darwin wrote in her diary (DAR 242) that she ‘ …
- … George (see, for example, the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [26 March 1858] ( …
- … beginning of the year. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Camilla Ludwig , the …
From Thomas Gold Appleton 24 April [1862]
Summary
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3517 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … present of some American maple sugar (see letter from Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton, 28 …
- … visited Down House in October 1849 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and had sent a box of …
- … children in 1852 (see the letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [23 April …
- … Mary, was married to Robert Mackintosh, Emma Darwin’s cousin ( F. W. Gregory 1975 ). In …
To H. W. Bates 16 April [1862]
Summary
Invitation to visit; Hooker will be present. Gives directions to Down. Also plans to invite John Lubbock over for an evening.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3507 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 April 1862]
Summary
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3506 |
From H. W. Bates [17 April 1862]
Summary
Accepts CD’s invitation.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3511 |
From Edward Newman 6 April 1862
Summary
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
| Author: | Edward Newman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172.2: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3497 |
To Charles Lyell 1 April [1862]
Summary
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [April 1862]
Summary
Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 20 [Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3512 |
From Henry Holland [c. April 1862]
Summary
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3490 |
To Asa Gray 21 April [1862]
Summary
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3513 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
