To John St Barbe [before 3 July 1862]
Summary
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Union Bank |
| Date: | [before 3 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3358 |
To John St Barbe [16 July 1862]
Summary
Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John St Barbe |
| Date: | [16 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 3r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3360 |
To James Brown Gibson [after 29 June 1862]
Summary
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Brown Gibson |
| Date: | [after 29 June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3361 |
From Andrew Smith [November? 1862]
Summary
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov? 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362 |
From W. E. Darwin [2 November 1862]
Summary
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362F |
From H. G. Bronn [before 11 March 1862]
Summary
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
| Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 Mar 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3363 |
From T. C. Eyton [after 19 May 1862?]
Summary
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 19 May 1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3364 |
From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | [3] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3371 |
To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard 2 January [1862]
Summary
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3372 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Summary
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
From Henry Walter Bates 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3377 |
From John Lubbock 7 [February] 1862
Summary
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 [Feb] 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3378 |
From Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 10 January 1862
Summary
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
| Author: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 11v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3379 |
To Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [after 10 January 1862]
Summary
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
| Date: | [after 10 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 11r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3380 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
To H. W. Bates 13 January [1862]
Summary
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3382 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862
Summary
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3383 |
From Charles Carter Blake 13 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
| Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3384 |
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