To Charles Lovegrove 9 July [1861?]
Summary
Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 9 July [1861?] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13823 |
From H. C. Watson [after 24 July 1861]
Summary
Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13853 |
To H. C. Watson [17 July 1861]
Summary
Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?
Polymorphic genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Date: | [17 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1616 |
From Henry Fawcett 16 July [1861]
Summary
Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.
Author: | Henry Fawcett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2868 |
To George Dickie [5 July 1861]
Summary
Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Dickie |
Date: | [5 July 1861] |
Classmark: | Liverpool Central Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3198 |
To George Gordon 4 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks GG for his great kindness about Corallorhiza. CD will try to get plants from J. H. Balfour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gordon |
Date: | 4 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3199 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
To George Gordon 6 July [1861]
Summary
Apologises for trespassing on GG’s kindness again. Believes there is a new point of structure in Listera cordata and asks GG to send specimens if it is still in flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gordon |
Date: | 6 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3201 |
From Tiberius Cornelis Winkler 7 July 1861
Summary
Sends his article ["Quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons fossiles", Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2d ser. 14 (1861)]
and Dutch translation of the Origin.
Author: | Tiberius Cornelius Winkler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6084) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3202 |
To A. G. More 7 July [1861]
Summary
Asks for more flowers of Epipactis palustris. Asks AGM to experiment on Epipactis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 7 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3203 |
To W. D. Fox 8 July [1861]
Summary
Family news.
Henslow’s death a sad loss. Leonard Jenyns will write a biography.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 8 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3204 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 9 July 1861]
Summary
CD thanks correspondents for information relating to the fertilisation of Pelargonium and of wheat. Suggests further observations and experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 9 July 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 280–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3204A |
To John Lubbock 10 July [1861]
Summary
Seeks JL’s advice on the articles of partnership in the Southampton bank. CD and his solicitor fear they will be unfavourable to William.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 43 (EH 88206487) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3205 |
To Frances Julia Wedgwood 11 July [1861]
Summary
Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.
On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | 11 July [1861] |
Classmark: | LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3206 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861]
Summary
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3207 |
To George Maw 13 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks GM for his fair review [of Origin, Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Feels it is a pity to mingle science and religion;
explains why he did not deal with the case of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 13 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3208 |
To John Lubbock 14 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL and his father for advice regarding Southampton bank. Has written to Atherley for fair terms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 44 (EH 88206488) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3209 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3210 |
To A. G. More 17 [July 1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis latifolia and O. maculata. " … as some Botanists doubt whether they are distinct species it would be rather curious to show them insects distinguish them".
Found a lot of bee orchids. "All facts point clearly to self-fertilisation in this species; yet I cannot swallow the bitter pill."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 17 [July 1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3211 |
To Peter Martin Duncan? 18 July [1861]
Summary
He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.
Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 18 July [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3212 |
letter | (30) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Fawcett, Henry | (1) |
Winkler, T. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
More, A. G. | (3) |
Gordon, George (b) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
More, A. G. | (3) |
Watson, H. C. | (3) |
Fawcett, Henry | (2) |
Gordon, George (b) | (2) |
Maw, George | (2) |
Dickie, George | (1) |
Duncan, P. M. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Lovegrove, Charles | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
Winkler, T. C. | (1) |