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To ?   11 March [1862–9]

Summary

Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  11 Mar [1862-9]
Classmark:  Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13877F

To ?   29 March [1862–9]

Summary

Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  29 Mar [1862-9]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13878

To ?   21 August [1862]

Summary

Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  21 Aug [1862]
Classmark:  Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3693F

To Pickard & Stoneman   1 December [1862]

Summary

Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  1 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3839

To Ladies   24 February [1862–9]

Summary

Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  24 Feb [1862-9]
Classmark:  R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5418F

From George Chichester Oxenden   5 June [1862 or 1864?]

Summary

Sends musk orchid.

Author:  George Chichester Oxenden
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 June [1862 or 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 173: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4520

From George Chichester Oxenden   5 July [1862]

Summary

His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.

Author:  George Chichester Oxenden
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 173: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4553

From G. C. Oxenden   13 July [1862]

Summary

Offers more Epipactis.

Author:  George Chichester Oxenden
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 173: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4565

To John William Salter   28 February [1862]

Summary

CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John William Salter
Date:  28 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5019

To J. H. Balfour   15 June [1862?]

Summary

Thanks JHB for specimen of Corallorrhiza;

would like some seeds of Corydalis claviculata.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Hutton Balfour
Date:  15 June [1862?]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Louis Mayer Rabinovitz Collection (MS 1044) Box 1, folder 2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5122

To [Alfred Malherbe?]   [1862–5?]

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Summary

Testimonial for a position as a librarian. Recipient is the author of a great monograph on the Picidae [woodpeckers].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Malherbe
Date:  [1862–5?]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6524

To Joseph Bullar   27 June [1862]

Summary

Thanks JB for "orchid flowers with Diptera".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Bullar
Date:  27 June [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.256)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6806

From Francis Walker   24 June [1862]

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Summary

Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.

Author:  Francis Walker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 June [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 70: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10547

To William Walmisley Baxter   26 January [1862]

Summary

Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Walmisley Baxter
Date:  26 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13773

To Edward Cresy   8 January [1862 or 1868]

Summary

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 321
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13788

To William Pamplin   4 [July 1862]

Summary

Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Pamplin
Date:  4 [July 1862]
Classmark:  Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13871

From Daniel Oliver   16 September 1862

Summary

Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Sept 1862
Classmark:  DAR 142: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13891G

From Daniel Oliver   [4–8 February 1862]

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Summary

Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4–8 Feb 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 205.8: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2916

From James Bateman   [1 February 1862]

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Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.

Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.

Author:  James Bateman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Feb 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 160.1: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3356

From Robert Bateman   [28 January 1862]

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For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.

Author:  Robert Bateman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 160.1: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3357
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