To Charles Kingsley [17 June 1865]
Summary
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877 |
To Henry Denny 23 March [1865]
Summary
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 23 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2435 |
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
To John Murray 4 April [1865]
Summary
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 434 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3494 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
To Edward Cresy 7 September [1865]
Summary
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 7 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4610 |
To Edward Cresy 19 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4639 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4643 |
To C. A. Bennet [before 3 January 1865]
Summary
Ludwig Rütimeyer thanks CAB for the skull of a Chillingham cow, and thinks it may belong to the Primigenius race.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville |
Date: | [before 3 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Scotsman, 19 July 1929, p. 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735F |
To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks for photograph, charmed by Mrs Huxley’s letter.
Regrets THH cannot do the popular work on zoology.
Has heard THH wrote leading article in last Reader ["Science and ""church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4738 |
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
To T. C. Eyton 9 January [1865?]
Summary
Thanks TCE for information about breeding
and for his promise to measure feet of otter-hounds [see Variation 1: 39–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 9 Jan [1865?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.285) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744 |
To Ray Society [before 7 January 1865]
Summary
Concerning the proposed translation of K. F. von Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 106r: Minute 1141, 13th January 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744F |
To Richard Kippist 18 January [1865]
Summary
Asks that the long paper that he is sending for the Society be acknowledged when received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 18 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747A |
To Henry Denny 17 January [1865]
Summary
Pleased to learn that HD has resumed research on Anoplura.
Are Chiloe pediculi a distinct species?
Do lice differ on different races of humans?
Is there evidence supporting Mr Marshall’s statement about Polynesian lice?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 17 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747F |
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
To John Edward Gray 27 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 27 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.305) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4755 |
To Henry Denny 28 January [1865]
Summary
Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;
especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 28 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756F |
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