To Federico Delpino 22 November 1871
Summary
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8082 |
From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
Summary
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
From Federico Delpino 15 November 1871
Summary
Sends paper on Artemesia.
Praise for Descent.
Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8069 |
From Federico Delpino 5 December 1871
Summary
Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.
Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.
CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8098 |
| letter | (4) |
| Delpino, Federico | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
