From Robert Francis Cooke 5 December 1870
Summary
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387 |
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 15 October 1866
Summary
The blocks [for Variation] have been forwarded to Murray.
WBT has been corresponding with Prof. Newton.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5243 |
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- … John Murray, 16 October [1866] . Tegetmeier had overseen the illustrations of pigeons and fowls for Variation (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 ). Alfred Newton , professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Cambridge University , corresponded with Tegetmeier about a seventeenth-century painting of a white dodo that Tegetmeier had discovered in a private collection. Tegetmeier had exhibited the picture at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , 10 …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 16 January [1866]
Summary
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10 May (see ‘Journal’, Appendix II). CD and Tegetmeier corresponded in 1865 about the engagement of Luke Wells to make drawings of pigeons for Variation (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 13, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 April [1865] and nn. 3 and 4). Tegetmeier made arrangements for this with the publisher (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 10 December [1866] . For CD’s discussion of variability in the size and colour of eggs among different breeds of fowl, see Variation 1: 248–9. CD refers to Dixon 1851 , an annotated copy of which is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 199–201); the illustration of the ‘dovehouse pigeon’ was not cut out of this copy. CD had previously sought permission from the publisher to use an illustration of the dovecot pigeon from Dixon 1851 ( Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Murray, …
From J. V. Carus 11 September 1867
Summary
JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5625 |
To Charles Hardy 27 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks CH for correction of blunder in Origin about hive-bees sucking clover: "a greater kindness than a new fact".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Hardy |
| Date: | 27 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2879 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. Miner, T. B. 1849. The American bee keeper’s manual; being a practical treatise on the history and domestic economy of the honey bee. London. [Vols. 7,8] Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. …
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 6 January [1867]
Summary
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5347 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray, 18 July [1866] ; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). Variation was published in January 1868 ( Freeman 1977 ). Tegetmeier edited a revision of the first edition of The poultry book (Wingfield and Johnson 1853) in 1856 and 1857; however, the publishers went out of business before the edition was complete (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 22 January [1866] and n. 10). …
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| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
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| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Hardy, Charles | (1) |
