From J. D. Hooker 14 [January] 1869
Summary
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Jan] 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5729 |
From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
Summary
Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A32–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6260 |
From John Lubbock [after 5 August 1869]
Summary
Visiting arrangements.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Aug 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 May 1869]
Summary
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519F |
From E. A. Darwin [after 21 April 1869]
Summary
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 21 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6521 |
From George Henslow [after 22 February 1869]
Summary
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6522 |
From James Paget [1869]
Summary
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1869] |
| Classmark: | Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6533 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 [November 1869 or later]
Summary
Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Nov 1869 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6539 |
From Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky [January–March 1869]
Summary
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan–Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [January 1869]
Summary
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541A |
From James Orton 4 January 1869
Summary
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
| Author: | James Orton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6542 |
From George Cupples 4 January 1869
Summary
Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.
Reports six-toed pup.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6543 |
From George Maw 9 January 1869
Summary
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6547 |
From George Cupples 11 January 1869
Summary
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6548 |
From Fritz Müller 12 January 1869
Summary
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6549 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 13 January 1869
Summary
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 105, 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6551 |
From George Maw 14 January 1869
Summary
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6553 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1869
Summary
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6554 |
From George Cupples 15 January 1869
Summary
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6555 |
From William Winwood Reade 17 January 1869
Summary
Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.
Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.
Castrated rams lose horns and manes.
Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6558 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (12) |
| Cupples, George | (10) |
| Tait, W. C. | (9) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (8) |
