To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1860]
Summary
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]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2858 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
Matches: 4 hits
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1860]
Summary
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
To Charles Lyell 12 September [1860]
Summary
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 |
To W. E. Darwin 26 [October 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2963 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 November [1860]
Summary
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 |
To Charles Lyell 12 [March 1860]
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 February [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2691 |
To Asa Gray 24 October [1860]
Summary
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Summary
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 |
To Edward Cresy 25 August [1860]
Summary
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 |
To J. S. Henslow 29 January [1860]
Summary
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 |
To Emma Gärtner 9 June [1860]
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
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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