To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
Summary
Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
To George Henslow [2–5 November 1865]
Summary
Reports the results of an experiment to compare the weight of seeds produced in plants of [Medicago sativa] by self-pollination and by insect pollination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henslow |
| Date: | [2–5 Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 328 n. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929F |
To Eliza Meteyard 16 November [1865]
Summary
Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4936 |
To Hermann Kindt 22 November 1865
Summary
Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.
Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939F |
To John Higgins 21 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4940F |
To James Shaw 30 November 1865
Summary
Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.
Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4943 |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
| Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
