To J. B. Innes 20 January [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.
George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;
Henrietta has been poorly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 20 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5792 |
To Albert Gaudry 21 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks AG for his essay on geology and Athenian history [see 5784].
Comments on French rejection of evolution. "How strange that the country of Buffon, Geoffroy and especially Lamarck should now cling to species as immutable creations."
Variation will soon appear in French.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 21 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5794 |
To J. P. M. Weale 23 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information on expression.
Poor progress of civilisation in South Africa. CD’s doubts and fears about democracy.
JPMW’s views on glaciation in S. Africa will discredit him unless supported by clearest evidence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 23 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5795 |
To George Howard Darwin 24 January [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5796 |
To Francis Galton 25 January [1868?]
Summary
FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.
Trusts that FG is well again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 25 Jan [1868?] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5800 |
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 27 January [1868]
Summary
Is sending a copy of Variation [to be published in a few days]. It cost more labour than it is worth.
George Darwin is Second Wrangler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 27 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5803 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [January 1868]
Summary
Grieved by Wollaston’s troubles. Offers contribution of £100. "How foolish men are in their investments."
Delight about George’s success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5804 |
To Julius von Haast 28 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 28 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5808 |
To Edward Cresy 29 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 29 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5813 |
To J. M. Herbert 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JMH for his congratulations.
Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5815 |
To Fritz Müller 30 January [1868]
Summary
Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5816 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations.
Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."
Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.
Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5817 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1868]
Summary
Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.
Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.
Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5820 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To William Lonsdale 1 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, p. 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
To Yorkshire Philosophical Society 8 February [1868]
Summary
CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | T. S Noble |
Date: | 8 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839F |
To George Moultrie Salt 5 February [1868]
Summary
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Moultrie Salt |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839G |
To G. G. Stokes 5 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839H |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 February [1868]
Summary
Delighted to hear of success of EH’s lectures.
Ernest Faivre [La variabilité des espèces (1868)] sees no reason to favour common descent of allied species.
Asks EH to pass German edition of Variation on to Gegenbaur.
Comments on work of Miklucho[-Maclay], Dohrn, and Bleek.
Has begun work on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5841 |
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