To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3650 |
From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876]
Summary
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1876] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260F |
To Daniel Oliver 2 September [1862]
Summary
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3706 |
To Asa Gray 21 August [1862]
Summary
Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.
Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.
Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.
Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3692 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
To W. D. Fox 12 September [1862]
Summary
WDF’s information on turkeys will be useful when CD resumes his half-finished volume [see Variation 1: 292].
Illness in the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 12 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3717 |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]
Summary
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [2–3 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3678 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Leonard Darwin was recovering from scarlet fever (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and letter to W. E. …
- … Darwin [24 July 1862] ). During the latter part of Leonard’s illness, the other Darwin children had been sent away with their former nurse, Brodie, who was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178; see also letter to W. E. …
From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 June [1862]
Summary
Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).
Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.
Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..
Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3620 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 17 June [1862]
Summary
Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.
CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.
CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".
Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus
and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 17 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3608 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 July [1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3649 |
To H. C. Watson 8 [August 1862]
Summary
Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Date: | 8 [Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3646 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1862: Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever in June (see letter to W. E. Darwin, …
- … Leonard’s illness, the other Darwin children had been sent away with their former nurse, Brodie, who was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178; see also letter to W. E. Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and n. 8). The family had planned to be reunited in Southampton, before moving on to Bournemouth for a holiday (see the letter …
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [18 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674 |
To W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3632 |
To W. E. Darwin [31 May 1862]
Summary
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3580 |
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