To George Varenne Reed 1 July [1859]
Summary
Sends payment for Francis Darwin’s tutoring. Inquires about possible arrangements for his son Leonard, who is slow and not well, to attend with Francis.
Asks whether he can have a cutting of GVR’s carrion-smelling Arum which he needs for an experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
Date: | 1 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2474 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1859]
Summary
Returns JDH’s proofs. He is so involved in Origin he cannot judge force of JDH’s arguments. Some detailed comments.
Haldeman’s old paper [see 2470] clever, but does not have natural selection. Explaining adaptation has always seemed turning point of theory of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2475 |
To W. E. Darwin 7 July [1859]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 7 July [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476 |
To John Higgins 13 July [1859]
Summary
His uncle, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, has asked if FSD’s son-in-law, Marcus Huish, can shoot over CD’s Beesby property. Can JH advise?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 13 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476F |
From John Higgins 15 July 1859
Summary
Suggests giving Marcus Huish permission to shoot over CD’s Beesby estate, but not to revoke JH’s occasional privilege to take a visitor shooting there.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1859 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476G |
To John Higgins 18 July [1859]
Summary
Has written to his uncle, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, to say that without revoking the right of shooting over Beesby, granted to JH, he is happy to allow Marcus Huish to shoot over the farm.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 18 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/4/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476H |
To John Murray 25 [July 1859]
Summary
Sends five sheets [of Origin] to printer. Incapable of forming an opinion, but thinks he has the style "fairly good and clear". Cannot conjecture if book will be successful enough to satisfy JM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 [July 1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.36–37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2477 |
To Robert Main 27 July [1859]
Summary
Thanks RM for copies of CD’s article on geology in the Admiralty scientific manual [J. F. W. Herschel ed., A manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Main |
Date: | 27 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Royal Astronomical Society (MSS Radcliffe. E.1.200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2477A |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1859]
Summary
CD wants JDH to make clear in introduction to Flora Tasmaniae that remarks on CD’s theory refer to his 1858 paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2478 |
To A. C. Ramsay 1 July [1859]
Summary
Thanks for answer to queries.
Expresses intention of reporting observations of traces of life in the Long Mynd beds and asks permission to cite ACR on his recent discovery of fossils in the Laurentian marbles of Canada.
Urges ACR’s investigation of Glen Roy problems.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 1 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2851 |
letter | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Main, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Higgins, John | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Main, Robert | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Reed, G. V. | (1) |