To John Price 28 July [1874]
Summary
Thanks JP for note.
Sends instructions for mailing Utricularia plants to Down in his absence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 28 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9570 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Price, 27 [July 1874] . …
- … See letter from John Price, [27 July 1874] , and letter …
- … John Price, 27 [July 1874] . Utricularia minor is lesser bladderwort. CD was away from home from 25 July until 24 August 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD’s gardener was Henry Lettington . CD and Francis had been studying Utricularia vulgaris (common bladderwort; see letter …
To Francis Darwin [c. 27 July 1874]
Summary
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9565A |
From John Price 24 April 1869
Summary
Has experimented with some success in growing twigs with buds
and a grass plant from which a ptarmigan had extracted the core.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6712 |
From John Price [27 July 1874]
Summary
Has some Utricularia minor for CD. Has found the bladders on U. vulgaris are not floats.
Thanks CD for book [Descent, 2d ed.].
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9522 |
From John Price 17 September 1881
Summary
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13341 |
To John Price 26 November 1868
Summary
Thanks JP for congratulations on success of George Darwin at Cambridge.
Does not have time to investigate propagation of Cardamine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6479 |
To John Price 2 April [1878]
Summary
On his discovery of ova of Flustra.
"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11461 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … between this letter and the letter to John Price, 10 February [1878] . No letter from …
- … Price had become friends when they were pupils at the Royal Free Grammar School in Shrewsbury. Price was probably preparing the paper on ‘Ciliary movement’ that he presented to the Chester Society of Natural Science on 3 April 1879 ( Annual Report of the Chester Society of Natural Science (1879): 11). CD had been awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) by Cambridge University in November 1877; Price had written to congratulate him on this honour (see letter to John …
From H. M. Wilkinson 5 August 1874
Summary
Reports his observations of Utricularia [in their natural state] as CD requested.
| Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9586 |
To John Ralfs 8 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Ralfs |
| Date: | 8 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 76527) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9534F |
From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
To John Price 8 September [1877–80?]
Summary
Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.
Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1877-80] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13836 |
From Asa Gray 6 November [1866]
Summary
Arranges for distribution of new [4th] English edition of Origin in the U. S.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5268 |
From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
| Author: | John Wood Warter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Summary
Would like Price’s address.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 February 1872
Summary
Sends first copy of new [6th] edition of Origin. Expenses have been much higher than estimated because of extensive revisions. 3000 copies retailing at 6s would yield only £100 profit. Suggests fixing price at 7s 6d.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 407 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8209 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … for an even lower price (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from John Murray, 31 May [ …
- … letter to John Murray, 23 April [1871] ). CD had added a new chapter, ‘Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection’ to Origin 6th ed. ( Origin 6th ed. , pp. 168–204); it included material that had been in several different places in earlier editions, as well as much new content. John Murray had suggested a price …
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
To John Murray 15 October [1859]
Summary
Discusses presentation copies [of the Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR R 143 (with R. F. Cooke correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2506 |
From John Murray 12 November [1872]
Summary
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 430 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8622 |
To John Murray 3 June [1871]
Summary
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 3 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (6) |
| John Murray | (6) |
| Price, John | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Price, John | (5) |
| Higgins, John | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
| Price, John | (10) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (8) |
| Murray, John (b) | (8) |
| John Murray | (7) |
