To Charles Lyell 20 July [1861]
Summary
Mentions George Maw’s "good review" of Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Relates remark by J. S. Mill concerning soundness of logic and method of Origin.
Is at work [on Orchids and Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861]
Summary
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3207 |
To W. D. Fox 8 July [1861]
Summary
Family news.
Henslow’s death a sad loss. Leonard Jenyns will write a biography.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 131) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3204 |
To John Lubbock 10 July [1861]
Summary
Seeks JL’s advice on the articles of partnership in the Southampton bank. CD and his solicitor fear they will be unfavourable to William.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 43 (EH 88206487) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3205 |
To Henry Fawcett 20 July 1861
Summary
"You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill’s opinion." [See 2868.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
| Date: | 20 July 1861 |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215A |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861]
Summary
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 [July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3210 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fawcett, Henry | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fawcett, Henry | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
