To Charles Lyell [22 November 1866 – 14 December 1871]
Summary
CD asks if he can call tomorrow (Friday) at 9: 30, and offers to come on Saturday if that would suit CL better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1866 – 14 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825G |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1866]
Summary
Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.
Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5262 |
To Thomas Laxton 3 November [1866]
Summary
Has examined TL’s crossed peas. Observes that in several lots crossed peas are smooth, like paternal stock, not wrinkled like maternal stock. Is this a result of mere variation, peculiar culture, or pollen of the father?
Encloses queries [missing].
Intends planting peas at once if TL approves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Laxton |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5267 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 November [1866]
Summary
Tells WED of a change in his will.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5271 |
To J. V. Carus 10 November 1866
Summary
Expresses gratification that JVC is to undertake new translation and revision of German edition of the Origin.
Has heard many complaints about Bronn’s translation. JVC would be justified in omitting Bronn’s appendix.
Suggests additions and changes, including reference to C. W. v. Nägeli’s Entstehung und Begriff [1865], though he disagrees with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5273 |
To J. T. Moggridge 13 November [1866]
Summary
Discusses fertilisation of peas by bees. Asks for seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 375 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5277 |
To John Lubbock 15 November 1866
Summary
Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 1 (EH 88205926) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5278 |
To John Higgins [16 November 1866]
Summary
[Acknowledges receipt of £252 19s. 2d.]
Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | [16 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5279F |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
To J. V. Carus 21 November 1866
Summary
Answers some question about species.
Sends biographical sketch.
Now considers that a note on Nägeli would have to be too long to include. Discusses his differences with Nägeli. Cannot believe in spontaneous generation. At present the principle of life seems to him beyond the confines of science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 4–5a); DAR 143: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5282 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1866]
Summary
Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284 |
To James Shaw 24 November [1866]
Summary
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Shaw |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284A |
To H. G. H. Norman [after 30 November 1866]
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert George Henry Norman |
| Date: | [after 30 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5287A |
To A. R. Wallace [23 November 1866?]
Summary
Will call on Wallace tomorrow (Saturday) at 10.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1866?] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (29 April 2000) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7512F |
To H. A. Huxley [before 25 November 1866?]
Summary
Asks if he may call on Sunday at 10 o’clock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Date: | [before 25 Nov 1866?] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797F |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
