From George Robert Gray 9 July 1869
Summary
Asks for a testimonial.
| Author: | George Robert Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 69v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6824 |
From J. J. Weir 31 July 1872
Summary
On variegated leaves; a feature not inherited consistently.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8440 |
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- … 1869 16 specimens most beautifully variegated, but not one has been found since. — Did the unusual heat of 1868 produce this effect? My friend has lived in the house some 20 years & therefore the observation is trustworthy, & I have personally taken the greatest interest in examing the spot from time to time Yours very truly | J Jenner Weir C Darwin Esq r …
To A. R. Wallace 21 October 1869
Summary
Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.
Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6951 |
From James Crichton-Browne 1 June 1869
Summary
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6769 |
To C. H. Blackley 5 July [1873]
Summary
Comments on CHB’s book [Experimental researches on catarrhus aestivus – hay-fever or hay-asthma (1873)].
Explains that some pollens are wind-blown while others depend on insects for dispersal. Effect of pollen on skin and mucous membrane astonishing. Sends a book [M. Wyman, Autumnal catarrh (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
| Date: | 5 July [1873] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8965 |
From John Murray 17 November 1869
Summary
JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].
Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 374 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6992 |
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- … r 17— 1869. — My Dear Sir I have attended to the requests of your note of Monday At my annual sale last week I disposed of copies of your work Fritz Muller 8 out of 545 Variations 18 — 300 Origin 311 — 1530 — wch. I hope you will consider not a bad days work— You have my best wishes for the putting down of your Parisian Blaspheemers My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray Chas Darwin Esq re . | &c & …
To A. R. Wallace 5 December [1869]
Summary
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7020 |
From A. B. Meyer 24 November 1869
Summary
Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7008 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
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- … Darwin , [ c. 29 November 1873] and n. 2. CD was a member of the Down School Board until November 1874 (see letter to Down School Board, 19 December 1873 , Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Down School Board, 16 November 1874 , and J. R. Moore 1985 , pp. 471 and 480). Henry Powell was vicar of Down from 1869 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Gray, G. R. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
