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To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, the home of Josiah Wedgwood …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwin family visited Hartfield Grove, Hartfield, Sussex and Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, the homes of Charles Langton and Josiah Wedgwood …
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 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
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- … Wedgwood lived, from 10 July 1860 to 2 August (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD had taken the water-cure at Edward Wickstead Lane’s establishment at Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, from 28 June 1860 to 7 July (‘Journal’; Appendix II). He refers to the long-continued illness of Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
