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From Asa Gray   12 October 1871

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Has seen CD’s sons.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Oct 1871
Classmark:  DAR 165: 177
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8004

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  • … sister Susan Mary Jackson . Henrietta Emma Darwin married Richard Buckley Litchfield on …

From Asa Gray   25 May 1868

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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

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  • … 1868 ). They visited Down from 24 to 30 October 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

From Asa Gray   31 May 1872

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Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 May 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8363

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  • … Brace visited Down on 11 July 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD and C.  L.  Brace …

From Asa Gray   21 November 1870

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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

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  • … Down House between 24 and 30 October 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Gray refers to …

From Asa Gray   6 November 1865

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Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.

CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1865
Classmark:  DAR 165: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4930

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  • … 19 October [1865] , was written by Emma Darwin . In his letter of 19 October [1865] , CD …

From Asa Gray   23 November 1863

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CD’s poor health.

Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4346

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  • Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. The most recent extant letter from CD is the …

From Asa Gray   6 October 1872

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Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

AG’s recent tour of the U. S.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Oct 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 181
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8545

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  • … wife, Letitia Brace , on 11 July 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Jane Loring Gray …

From Asa Gray   22 September 1862

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Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".

Changes in orchid flowers as they age.

Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Sept 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 118, 119
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3736

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  • … 4 September [1862] , CD reported that Emma and Leonard Darwin were recovering from attacks …
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