To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
To the Lords of the Admiralty [2–4 July 1866]
Summary
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | [2–4 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5142 |
To ? 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5170 |
To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
To Francis Darwin [after 12 October 1866]
Summary
Instructions on paying a bill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13793 |
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 [H. B. Jones?] 13 April [1866]
Summary
CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 13 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13868 |
To Edward Blyth 10 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4950 |
To George Howard Darwin [1866]
Summary
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4961 |
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 6 January [1866]
Summary
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 6 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4970 |
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [January 1866]
Summary
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4976 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 16 January [1866]
Summary
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977 |
To [James Samuelson?] 19 January [1866?]
Summary
CD is happy to sign photograph. He will only require one copy of the journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Samuelson |
Date: | 19 Jan [1866?] |
Classmark: | Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (25 September 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4977F |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [January 1866]
Summary
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4981 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1866
Summary
Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].
Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.
Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.
ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".
Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4982 |
To A. R. Wallace [6 February 1866]
Summary
ARW’s simple explanation of dimorphic forms is satisfactory.
On "non-blending" of certain varieties, CD thinks ARW has not understood him. He does not refer to fertility. He crossed two differently coloured varieties of peas and "got both varieties perfect, but none intermediate". Something like this must occur in ARW’s butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [6 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4989 |
Darwin, C. R. | (182) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |