To H. W. Bates 15 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for news of HWB and his book.
There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.
Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3764 |
To H. W. Bates 18 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for last note. Assures HWB that all writers have problems similar to his.
Plans to inquire at Linnean Society for HWB’s paper.
His family, including Mrs Darwin and Leonard, are now well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3773 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |