To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 July [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2300 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 [July 1858]
Summary
Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2301 |
To Asa Gray 4 July 1858
Summary
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 July 1858 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2302 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1858]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2303 |
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 July [1858] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2304 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
From William Swale 13 July 1858
Summary
Discusses the absence of a native bee in New Zealand and the insects which probably performed its fertilising function [see "Agency of bees in fertilization", Collected papers 2: 21]. Describes the success of the naturalised hive-bee and also the rapid spread of introduced members of the Fabaceae.
Author: | William Swale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 323 (fragile), DAR 205.4: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2308 |
To Charles Lyell 18 July [1858]
Summary
Thanks for abstract of Etna paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86]. Never expected to see Élie de Beaumont’s theory ["craters of elevation"] so completely upset. "He must have picked out favourable cases for measurement."
More than satisfied by what was done at Linnean Society [joint reading of CD’s and Wallace’s papers: "Tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Intends to prepare longer abstract.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 July [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2309 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2310 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 July [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 July [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2311 |
To W. D. Fox 21 [July 1858]
Summary
After all, CD is now beginning to prepare an abstract of his species theory. Recounts the events leading to joint paper with A. R. Wallace at Linnean Society. Lyell and Hooker urge strongly that he publish a fuller abstract. It is impossible to do justice to subject in an abstract.
His sister, Marianne Parker, has died.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 21 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2312 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 [July 1858]
Summary
Six children have died of scarlet fever in Down village.
Writing abstract is amusing and improving work. Thanks JDH and Lyell for setting him to it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2314 |
To William Jackson Hooker [30 July 1858]
Summary
Thanks WJH for an extract on seed transport by sea. [Letter sent with 2314.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [30 July 1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence S. American letters 1852–8, 38: 148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2315 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 July 1858
Summary
The CD–Wallace paper has gone to press.
JDH’s tabulation of variable species from Bentham was done in haste.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2316 |
letter | (15) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Swale, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Swale, William | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |