To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
To W. D. Fox [17 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3555 |
To H. W. Bates 11 June [1862]
Summary
Encloses a question [missing] concerning language [from Hensleigh Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 11 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.284) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3596 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … s brother, Josiah Wedgwood III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) …
- … Wedgwood III (see n. 13, below). CD had asked Hooker to examine the stigma of Leschenaultia biloba (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 May [1862] ), and had apparently sent him specimens at Hooker’s request (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Frances Harriet Hooker’s letter to Emma Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
To Camilla Ludwig 26 August [1862]
Summary
Family news; mostly an account of ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
| Date: | 26 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3700 |
To John St Barbe [before 3 July 1862]
Summary
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Union Bank |
| Date: | [before 3 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3358 |
To Asa Gray 23 November [1862]
Summary
Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3820 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
