To John Murray 9 January [1868]
Summary
CD exasperated by Dallas’ delay in finishing index [for Variation]. "I am prepared to throw the Index overboard."
Thinks JM should reconsider publishing a translation of Brehm’s Thierleben. It is excellent and would "sell largely".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 178–179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5781 |
From John Murray 10 January [1868]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about the index [of Variation] will be relieved somewhat when he learns it has at last been set up.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5782 |
To W. S. Dallas [14 January 1868]
Summary
CD was frustrated by the delay [in producing index for Variation], but was quite mollified by WSD’s note; is sorry the work turned out so badly for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | [14 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5783 |
From Albert Gaudry 11 January 1868
Summary
Sends an article ["Des lumières que la géologie peut jeter sur … l’histoire ancienne des Athéniens"] extracted from his work [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD’s letters have been an encouragement.
Hopes the belief in transformation will gradually be accepted. For himself the idea in no way undermines his idea of spirituality and his respect for human dignity.
Hopes to continue his work on the genealogical relationship (enchaînement) of fossils.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5784 |
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
From Asa Gray 14 January [1868]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5786 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1868
Summary
Sends a pamphlet by W. R. Greg [Malthus: re-examined by the light of physiology (1868)].
Many Cucurbitaceae have smaller male than female flowers.
Has written to H. C. Watson on the counterbalance [to variation] of crossing and uniform conditions. Watson has forgotten the argument.
Has written to F. Müller on abnormal Solanum.
Does not understand Hildebrand on potatoes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 193, 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5787 |
From W. S. Dallas 15 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for cheque for £5.5.0 supplementing fee from J. Murray’s. Will return it if Murray provides an additional amount. Is glad CD is so well pleased. Sends notes for errata.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5788 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 6 January 1868?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Jan 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5789 |
To Roland Trimen 16 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 16 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5790 |
From John Brodie Innes 16 January 1868
Summary
Sends school subscription to CD as treasurer. Hopes Henrietta will assist in teaching there.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5791 |
To J. B. Innes 20 January [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.
George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;
Henrietta has been poorly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 20 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5792 |
From Henry Lee 21 January 1868
Author: | Henry Lee |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5793 |
To Albert Gaudry 21 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks AG for his essay on geology and Athenian history [see 5784].
Comments on French rejection of evolution. "How strange that the country of Buffon, Geoffroy and especially Lamarck should now cling to species as immutable creations."
Variation will soon appear in French.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 21 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5794 |
To J. P. M. Weale 23 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information on expression.
Poor progress of civilisation in South Africa. CD’s doubts and fears about democracy.
JPMW’s views on glaciation in S. Africa will discredit him unless supported by clearest evidence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 23 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5795 |
To George Howard Darwin 24 January [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5796 |
From Charles Pritchard 24 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on success of CD’s son [George].
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5797 |
From the Commission générale des Ordres Royaux 24 January 1868
Summary
CD made a knight of the Royal Orders.
Author: | Commission générale des ordres royaux |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 19a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5797A |
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1868]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 187–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5798 |
From Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin 25 January [1868]
Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5799 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (323) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Weir, J. J. | (22) |
Blyth, Edward | (20) |
Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
Darwin, C. R. | (468) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |