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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

Matches: 4 hits

  • … From Henrietta Emma Darwin    [29 October 1862] …
  • … DAR 162: 68 Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … of their aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also n.  3, …
  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield unstated [29 Oct 1862] Charles Robert Darwin

To W. E. Darwin   30 [October 1862]

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Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.

Discusses family affairs.

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]

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Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [25 Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3782

Matches: 3 hits

  • … and n.  5, letter from W. E. Darwin, 23 October [1862], and n. 5. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242) records that Henrietta Emma Darwin returned to Down House on 22 October 1862, and …
  • … m[ornin]g as before’. On 25 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1842, was staying with him. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sulivan, Mellersh, …
  • … fever during the summer (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Sulivan, Mellersh, and …
  • … Darwin had been ill early in 1862, and Emma and Leonard Darwin had been ill with scarlet …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … from John Lubbock, 25 October 1862 . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Lubbock …
  • … Lubbock’s house in Chislehurst, Kent. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 25  …

To J. D. Hooker   27 [October 1862]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin became ill with scarlet fever in Southampton on 13 August, while on the way to …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Clements Wickham , and Arthur Mellersh ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letters from …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Clements Wickham , and Arthur Mellersh ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letters from …

From Hugh Falconer   4 October 1862

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … way home from his holiday in Bournemouth ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See also letter …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that John Lubbock dined at Down House on Friday 31  …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Falconer, 1 October [1862] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had spent the …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … meeting in Cambridge from 1 to 8 October. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …
  • … sickness in night but not so bad’. Emma and Leonard Darwin had been ill with scarlet fever …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1862] ). John Clements Wickham . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Sulivan, …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … in Cambridge from 1 to 8 October. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Arthur …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … p.  374). According to her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin travelled to London on 16 October  …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … CD at Down House and stayed overnight ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD’s letter to …

From H. W. Bates   17 October 1862

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Bates, 15 October [1862] . Leonard and Emma Darwin were both ill with scarlet fever during …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 3, above). He later mentioned meeting Emma Darwin there; she attended the exhibition on 17 …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD spent …
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