From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1869
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6588 |
From Asa Gray 9 May [1869]
Summary
Encloses Mrs Gray’s notes on expression among Arabs.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6737 |
From Asa Gray 20 October 1869
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6946 |
From Asa Gray 23 August 1869
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6867 |
To Asa Gray 1 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6767 |
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- … To Asa Gray 1 June [1869] …
- … Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1869] Asa …
- … letter and the letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. Letter from Asa and J. …
- … L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869 and n. 10. …
- … on 13 May 1869 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Asa and Jane Loring Gray visited the …
- … see the letter from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. The Darwins left on 10 June …
- … May 1869 and n. 9. See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869 and nn. 9 and 12. …
- … II)). See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. CD finished the fifth edition …
From Asa Gray 26 and 29 October [1869]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 and 29 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6957 |
From Asa Gray and Jane Loring Gray 8 and 9 May 1869
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.
Recounts his travels.
Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.
Author: | Asa Gray; Jane Loring Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 and 9 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 167—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6736 |
From Louis Agassiz 6 July 1869
Summary
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
Author: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6817 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
Summary
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
To Asa Gray 7 December 1870
Summary
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 7 Dec 1870 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7388 |
From Asa Gray 10 June 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994 |
From S. R. S. Norton 20 November [1871]
Summary
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8079 |
From Chauncey Wright 3 September 1874
Summary
Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.
Also discusses space and colour perception.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9624 |
To Charles Layton 24 November [1869]
Summary
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Marshall Rare Books (dealer) (January 2022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7007 |
From Jane Loring Gray 14 February 1870
Author: | Jane Loring Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7104 |
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From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June 1869
Summary
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6779 |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
From John Scott 2 July 1869
Summary
Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A31, DAR 177: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6815 |
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