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To A. R. Wallace   22 July [1875]

Summary

Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.

CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  22 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 271
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10088

To A. R. Wallace   23 December 1875

Summary

E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  23 Dec 1875
Classmark:  DAR 148: 272
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10322

To A. R. Wallace   28 December 1875

Summary

Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  28 Dec 1875
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10330

To A. R. Wallace   5 June 1876

Summary

Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 June 1876
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10531

To A. R. Wallace   17 June 1876

Summary

Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.

Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  17 June 1876
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10538

To A. R. Wallace   25 June 1876

Summary

Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  25 June 1876
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10550

To A. R. Wallace   31 August 1877

Summary

Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  31 Aug 1877
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11121

To A. R. Wallace   5 September [1877]

Summary

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 Sept [1877]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11127

To A. R. Wallace   16 September 1878

Summary

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  16 Sept 1878
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11695

To A. R. Wallace   5 January 1880

Summary

Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".

Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.

Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12401

To A. R. Wallace   3 November 1880

Summary

High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  3 Nov 1880
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12791

To A. R. Wallace   2 January 1881

Summary

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  2 Jan 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12968

To A. R. Wallace   7 January [1881]

Summary

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  7 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12985

To A. R. Wallace   10 January 1881

Summary

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  10 Jan 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12997

To A. R. Wallace   12 July 1881

Summary

Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.

His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  12 July 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13243

To A. R. Wallace   23 November 1881

Summary

At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  23 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13507F

To Alfred Russel Wallace   1 May 1857

Summary

Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".

On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.

Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  1 May 1857
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2086

To A. R. Wallace   22 December 1857

Summary

Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.

Reference to differences on subsidence.

Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  22 Dec 1857
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2192

To A. R. Wallace   25 January [1859]

Summary

Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.

Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].

Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.

Their collection of bees’ combs.

Praises ARW’s article.

Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  25 Jan [1859]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2405

To A. R. Wallace   6 April 1859

Summary

First part of Origin MS is with Murray;

CD hopes he has noticed ARW’s work fairly.

ARW is right in thinking that CD was led to believe that selection was the principle of change from studying domesticated productions and that after reading Malthus he "saw at once how to apply this principle". Geographical distribution and geological relations of extinct and recent inhabitants of S. America first led him to the subject, "Especially case of Galapagos Islds". Hooker and Lubbock are full converts and Huxley now believes in species mutation. "We shall live to see all the younger men converts."

Praises ARW’s work and spirit.

CD had actually written a letter to ARW stating he would not publish before him but was persuaded by Lyell and Hooker to allow them to act "as they thought fair & honourably".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  6 Apr 1859
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2449
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