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 |
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- … 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 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 John Murray 3 August [1860]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review [July 1860] in which he is "quizzed splendidly". The Bishop [Wilberforce] misrepresents him often, but clever men think they can write a review with very slight knowledge of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.74–75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2888 |
From Charles Théophile Gaudin [15 August 1860]
Summary
Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.
| Author: | Charles-Théophile Gaudin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2897 |
To A. D. Bartlett 24 August [1860]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin.
Discusses stripes on hybrid of donkey and wild ass.
Will let ADB know if lady consents to sending rabbits to [Zoological] Gardens.
Asks about gestation of Canidae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gaudin, C.-T. | (1) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Gaudin, C.-T. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
