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To Asa Gray   [after 11 October 1861]

Summary

Thanks AG for notes on hollies.

Replies to an argument for design. Feels it monstrous to consider orchids created as they are now seen, since every part reveals modification on modification.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  [after 11 Oct 1861]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3283

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  • … To Asa Gray   [after 11 October 1861] …
  • … included in the part of the letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , that is now missing. …
  • … the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 . See also letter from Asa …
  • … 17 September [1861] . See letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and letter to Asa Gray, …
  • Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51a) Charles Robert Darwin Down [after 11 Oct 1861] Asa

From Asa Gray   11 October [1868]

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Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Oct [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6931

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  • … From Asa Gray   11 October [1868] …
  • … DAR 165: 170 Asa Gray Kew 11 Oct [1868] Charles Robert Darwin …

To Asa Gray   24 March [1880]

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Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.

Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  24 Mar [1880]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12545

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  • … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 11 March 1880 . Gray had sent seeds of …
  • … 1880 . Delphinium nudicaule (red larkspur); see letter from Asa Gray, 11 March 1880 and n. …
  • … 2. See letter from Asa Gray, 11 March 1880 and nn. 4 and 5. Gray’s anonymous review of T. …
  • … 4 March 1880, p. 182; see letter from Asa Gray, 11 March 1880 and n. 3. Samuel Butler …

From Asa Gray   13 April 1863

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Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.

AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4089

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  • … 1863] ). Variation was published in 1868. See letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n.   …
  • … 14. See letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and nn.   …
  • … 8–11. See letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] , and letter to J.  D.   Hooker, [9 May …

From Asa Gray   [10 July 1860]

Summary

Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2819

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  • … CD thanked Gray for these ‘valuable hints’ in the letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1860] . …
  • … by CD’s statement in the letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1860] : ‘I received your note of …

To Asa Gray   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends copy of Origin for comments.

Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2520

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  • … To Asa Gray   11 November [1859] …
  • … 1859] ). CD refers to his letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] . Gray cited James Dwight …
  • Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley Down letterhead 11 Nov [1859] Asa
  • Gray, Asa. 1858–9. Diagnostic characters of new species of phænogamous plants, collected in Japan by Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11

From Asa Gray   11 June 1872

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O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 June 1872
Classmark:  DAR 106: D13–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8381

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  • … From Asa Gray   11 June 1872 …
  • … DAR 106: D13–14 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 11 June 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • 11, 1872 My Dear Darwin I dare say you have long ago the clever thing referred to in Prof. Rood’s letter; I send the copy by a friend who will post it in Liverpool—so that it should reach you nearly as soon as this letter. We are closing up our domestic affairs—for a vacation-visit to California and the Rky Mts.  and am much hurried. Ever yours cordially | Asa Gray

From Asa Gray   11 March 1880

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Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 209.6: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12532

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  • … DAR 209.6: 202 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 11 Mar 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Asa Gray   11 April 1863

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The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 132
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4081

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  • … DAR 165: 132 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 11 Apr 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Asa Gray   [10–16] June [1863]

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Possible dimorphism in Phlox.

Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.

Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10–16] June [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4198

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  • … Arts ( A.  Gray 1863d ). See letters to Asa Gray , 11 May [1863] and 31 May [1863] . Gray …
  • … Louis, Missouri ( DAB ). See letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and nn.  8–11. Gray refers …
  • … the stems of plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Gray discussed the work of ‘ …
  • … See also Naumann 1845 . See letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n.  12; the reference is …
  • Asa Gray, 20 March [1863] and n.  5. CD thought that some species of Phlox might be dimorphic (see letter from Isaac Anderson-Henry, 24 April 1863 , and letter to Isaac Anderson-Henry, 2 May [1863] ); he probably asked Gray his opinion either in a missing postscript to his letter to Gray of 11  …

From Asa Gray   31 December 1861

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Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.

Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Dec 1861
Classmark:  DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3354

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  • … Weddell 1855–7 . Koch 1843–4 . Letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] . Psalms 39:3. In …
  • … of the situation, see the letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] . Jane Loring Gray , like …
  • … s opinion of events in the letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] . See also Dupree 1959 , …
  • … intercepted the Trent (see letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] ). The botanist Berthold …
  • … See McPherson 1988 . CD, in the letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] , had compared his …
  • … the letters from Asa Gray , [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861] , 11 October 1861 , …
  • … letters to Asa Gray , 21 July [1861] , 16 September [1861] , 17 September [1861] , and 11  …

To Asa Gray   11 May [1863]

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CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.

Is confused over phyllotaxy.

Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 May [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4153

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  • … To Asa Gray   11 May [1863] …
  • … between 6 and 13 May 1863. Letters from Asa Gray , 11 April 1863 , 13 April 1863 , and 20  …
  • Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place Down letterhead 11 May [1863] Asa
  • … Appendix VII. See letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863  and n.  11. See also letter to J.   …
  • … G.  H.  Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]). See also letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 . Joseph …
  • Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] , the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] , and the letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] . See also letter from Charles Lyell, 11  …
  • Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] . In DAR 51: A30 there is a note, dated 10 May 1863, in which CD declared himself ‘utterly confounded’ by phyllotaxy. George Howard Darwin’s notes on phyllotaxy are in DAR 192: 1–7. See also memorandum from G.  H.  Darwin, [before 11  …

From Asa Gray   11 December 1874

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Cannot help with Pinguicula or Utricularia. Mrs Mary Treat is studying Utricularia.

Forwards his short piece on duration of varieties [New York Tribune 8 Dec 1874; Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 9 (1875): 109–14].

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Dec 1874
Classmark:  DAR 165: 187
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9753

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  • … DAR 165: 187 Asa Gray Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. 11 Dec 1874 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Asa Gray   11 July 1864

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Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.

Comments on some climbing plants.

Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.

Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4558

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  • … From Asa Gray   11 July 1864 …
  • … DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 11 July 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Wright to Asa Gray, 20, 25, and 26 March and 1 April 1864  and nn.  2 and 11). See letter …

To Asa Gray   11 December [1860]

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The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.

Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Dec [1860]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3017

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  • Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Dec [1860] Asa
  • Asa Gray , 19 October [1860] and 24 October [1860] . Gray apparently asked CD whether he thought Thomas Henry Huxley would be interested in publishing an article on CD’s theory by his friend Chauncey Wright . Huxley had recently taken over the principal editorship of the Natural History Review . See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 11  …

To Asa Gray   11 March [1873]

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Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].

Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Mar [1873]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (106)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8806

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To Daniel Oliver   30 November [1861]

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Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.

Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?

O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  30 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3333

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  • … pp.  369–70; see also Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] ). …

To T. H. Huxley   11 December [1860]

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Forwards A. Gray’s letter [inquiring whether THH would be interested in printing Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  11 Dec [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 166)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3018

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  • … that is now missing (see letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] ). It apparently included …
  • 11 th My dear Huxley Please read enclosed, as I did not like to refuse. But I know well from what you said, what your answer will be. —   Still less than simply insert would you (after seeing it) pay for article. — Please return the enclosed, & let me have answer for Asa Gray. —   …

To Asa Gray   28 May [1864]

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Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids

– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.

Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.

How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?

He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  28 May [1864]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4511

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  • … due to visit him in July (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 ). No letter from Wright …
  • … or lichen-covered trees (see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864  and n.  5, and ‘Climbing …
  • … make this statement; see letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . Voandzeia is a genus in the …
  • … Willis 1973 ). See also letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 . For CD’s published discussion …
  • Asa Gray, 16 February 1864  and n.  9. Jane Loring Gray had been particularly unwell during the winter of 1863–4. See Correspondence vol.  11, …
  • Gray sent specimens of Campanula perfoliata ( Specularia perfoliata ) in 1863; however, CD put the specimens in warm water to soak the flowers before he realised that they had seeds. Evidently the seeds failed to germinate (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Asa

To Asa Gray   11 August [1860]

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Agassiz is strongly opposed to Origin, but CD thinks K. E. von Baer may come out in support.

Discusses the possibility of favourable monstrosities in the light of Theophilus Parsons’ essay ["On the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 1–13].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (35)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2896

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