From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 8 August [1862]
Summary
WED thinks Bournemouth a suitable holiday destination for ED and CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674F |
From Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton 28 June [1862]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 28 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | James G. Zimmer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3626 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to Emma Darwin [January 1862]
Summary
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3368 |
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [29 October 1862]
Summary
Instinct in cats.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3787 |
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 |
From Georgina Tollet 17 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
| Author: | Georgina Tollet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3556 |
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 July [1862]
Summary
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644F |
From J. D. Hooker [after 26 March 1862?]
Summary
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 Mar 1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3486 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
