From L. E. Becker 28 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5327 |
To J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
From W. W. Reade 3 May 1872
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8310 |
From Sarah Harriet Owen 31 [December 1827]
Summary
They have been having a very gay time. Tells of "Redcoats & Shootables" and several mutual friends.
Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 [Dec 1827] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-36 |
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1860
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2852 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 6 February 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5391 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1877
Summary
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11227 |
To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
To John Murray 29 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6718 |
To G. R. Jesse 23 April 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Richard Jesse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13136 |
From G. R. Jesse 22 April 1881
Author: | George Richard Jesse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13133 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 February 1869
Summary
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6614 |
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- … ladies at South Kensington ( Clifford 1882 , pp. xxii, 628–37). George may also refer to Archibald John Scott Milman . Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice. George refers to letters …
- … ladies’ lecturers at S. Kensington along with Milman &.c. — Fitzmaurice has been here for yesterday & today, he breakfasted with me this m g . He says he is coming to Paris at Easter, but I don’t suppose I shall see much of him as I fancy he has got relations there. I have not got Croll’s letters …
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
To Catherine Darwin 20–9 July 1834
Summary
In the past six months he has done much geology and natural history. His geological pursuits are a source of high pleasure. Has lately determined to work chiefly on corals.
Spent three weeks going up the Santa Cruz with a party; they ran out of provisions 20 miles from the Cordilleras. Winter at present prevents his doing much natural history.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | 20–9 July 1834 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-248 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 19 August [1871]
Summary
A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.
The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.
Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.
His brother-in-law has been arrested.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7911 |
To Lydia Wendland 7 June [1875]
Summary
Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lydia Wendland |
Date: | 7 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10012F |
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
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expression in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the publication of his …