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To M. T. Masters   [July 1875]

Summary

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [July 1875]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10038F

To M. T. Masters   10 July [1875]

Summary

Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]

and for his trouble about the gooseberry.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  10 July [1875]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10057

To M. T. Masters   10 October [1876]

Summary

Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.

Discusses graft-hybrids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  10 Oct [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 347
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10637

To M. T. Masters   [6–12 December 1877]

Summary

Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [6–12 Dec 1877]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11294

To M. T. Masters   [after 25 November 1880]

Summary

Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [after 25 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12859

To Maxwell Tylden Masters   7 April [1860]

Summary

Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].

Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  7 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2749

To M. T. Masters   13 April [1860]

Summary

Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.

Thanks for correction about furze.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  13 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2759

To Maxwell Tylden Masters   26 February [1862]

Summary

Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  26 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 339
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3459

To M. T. Masters   8 July [1862]

Summary

CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  8 July [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3645

To M. T. Masters   24 July [1862]

Summary

CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.

His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  24 July [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3663

To Maxwell Tylden Masters   6 April [1863]

Summary

Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  6 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4076

To M. T. Masters   [8–13 April 1863]

Summary

Sends two spikes of Corydalis.

Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [8–13 Apr 1863]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4091

To M. T. Masters   20 September [1864]

Summary

CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  20 Sept [1864]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4618

To M. T. Masters   25 April [1860]

Summary

Glad to hear of MTM’s papers [? "On a peloria and semidouble flower of Ophrys aranifera, Huds.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 207–11 and "Observations on the morphology and anatomy of the genus Restio, Linn.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 211–55].

CD doubts the value, for origin of species, of parallels between peloria in "distinct groups".

Gärtner proved the stigma can select its own pollen from a mixture of foreign pollens. But much evidence shows varieties of same species are prepotent over a plant’s own pollen.

MTM’s father [William] believes that variation goes on for a long time once it has commenced.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  25 Apr [1860]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4818

To M. T. Masters   [28 March – 5 April 1867]

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Summary

Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  [28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 34–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5468

To Maxwell Tylden Masters   21 March [1868]

Summary

Sends his niece’s [Lucy Wedgwood] observations on worms, vouches for her accuracy, and suggests the piece be inserted in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see "Worms", Gard. Chron. (1868): 324].

Adds his thanks for a "very kind review" of his book [Variation, Gard. Chron. (1868): 124].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  21 Mar [1868]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6032

To M. T. Masters   9 May [1871]

Summary

Thanks correspondent for information about a dog.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  9 May [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.395)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7746

To M. T. Masters   31 August [1871]

Summary

Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  31 Aug [1871]
Classmark:  Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7919F

To M. T. Masters   29 September [1873]

Summary

CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  29 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9077

To M. T. Masters   7 August [1874]

Summary

Discusses flower structures of the hop.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:  7 Aug [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9593
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