To ? 2 May [1869 or later]
Summary
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 May [1869-82] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866A |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
To the Athenæum 19 June 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 19 June 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787 |
To ? 23 June 1869
Summary
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 June 1869 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6795 |
To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |
To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
To William Bowman 16 May [1869–81]
Summary
"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 May [1869-81] |
Classmark: | George Houle Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 61, March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13781 |
To Adolph Reuter 24 July [1869]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 24 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13837 |
To Richard Kippist 31 January [1869?]
Summary
"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 31 Jan [1869?] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (pasted in Mueller 1858–82, vol. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426A |
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 3 April [1869]
Summary
Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.
Interested in galls
and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 3 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5482 |
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 |
To George Howard Darwin 6 February [1869]
Summary
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5843 |
To Charles Lyell [3 November 1869]
Summary
Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5974 |
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 |
To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869]
Summary
Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Scientific Opinion |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6442 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (289) |
Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
Carus, J. V. | (9) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |