To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
To ? 21 August [1862]
Summary
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693F |
To Pickard & Stoneman 1 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3839 |
To Ladies 24 February [1862–9]
Summary
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Feb [1862-9] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418F |
From George Chichester Oxenden 5 June [1862 or 1864?]
Summary
Sends musk orchid.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June [1862 or 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4520 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 5 July [1862]
Summary
His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4553 |
From G. C. Oxenden 13 July [1862]
Summary
Offers more Epipactis.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4565 |
To John William Salter 28 February [1862]
Summary
CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 28 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5019 |
To J. H. Balfour 15 June [1862?]
Summary
Thanks JHB for specimen of Corallorrhiza;
would like some seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 15 June [1862?] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Louis Mayer Rabinovitz Collection (MS 1044) Box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5122 |
To [Alfred Malherbe?] [1862–5?]
Summary
Testimonial for a position as a librarian. Recipient is the author of a great monograph on the Picidae [woodpeckers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Malherbe |
Date: | [1862–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6524 |
To Joseph Bullar 27 June [1862]
Summary
Thanks JB for "orchid flowers with Diptera".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Bullar |
Date: | 27 June [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.256) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6806 |
From Francis Walker 24 June [1862]
Summary
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10547 |
To William Walmisley Baxter 26 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 26 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13773 |
To Edward Cresy 8 January [1862 or 1868]
Summary
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 8 Jan [1862 or 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13788 |
To William Pamplin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Pamplin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13871 |
From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
From Daniel Oliver [4–8 February 1862]
Summary
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2916 |
From James Bateman [1 February 1862]
Summary
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Author: | James Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3356 |
From Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]
Summary
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
Author: | Robert Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3357 |
Darwin, C. R. | (251) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (299) |
Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
Gray, Asa | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (15) |
Bates, H. W. | (13) |