From Henrietta Emma Darwin [29 October 1862]
Summary
Instinct in cats.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3787 |
To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … and the letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [19 November 1862] and [2 December …
- … Hampshire Bank, Southampton. Henrietta Emma Darwin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [ …
- … s visit to Down House on 31 October, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Ch. …
- … in Kensington run by Miss Buob, on 27 January 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
- … and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [29 October 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 63). …
- … in the year. See the letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , [2 March …
- … in DAR 219.1: 49, 57, 64; see also Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s Classed account …
- … of Down. On Saturday 1 November 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …
- … having become friendly with Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
To W. E. Darwin [25 October 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3782 |
From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
To John Lubbock 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3783 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Throughout 1860 and 1861, Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill with a fever diagnosed as a …
- … vols. 8 and 9). On 13 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Etty …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until 11 February 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … as before’. Horace Darwin had been seriously ill earlier in the year, and Emma and Leonard …
To H. W. Bates 15 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for news of HWB and his book.
There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.
Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3764 |
From B. J. Sulivan 14 October [1862]
Summary
Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3763 |
From B. J. Sulivan 18 October [1862]
Summary
Confirms arrangements for his trip to Down.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3775 |
From Hugh Falconer 4 October 1862
Summary
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751 |
From John Lubbock 30 October 1862
Summary
Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3788 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1862]
Summary
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3747 |
From John Lubbock 25 October 1862
Summary
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3781 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October [1862]
Summary
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3759 |
To John Lubbock 23 October [1862]
Summary
Would like JL to call.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3779 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 October [1862]
Summary
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777 |
From W. E. Darwin 23 October [1862]
Summary
Sends observations on Lythrum. Reports bad health of Maud Atherley.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777F |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
letter | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |