To John Medows Rodwell 15 October [1860]
Summary
Comments on Rodwell’s discussion of the “struggle for life” with reference to languages and G. H. Lewes’s article in the Cornhill Magazine (Lewes 1860, pp. 445–7). Comments on Rodwell’s account of horses affected by mildewed pasturage, and asks for more information about his white cat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2950F |
To J. M. Rodwell 5 November [1860]
Summary
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2976 |
From John Medows Rodwell 31 October 1860
Summary
Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.
Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.
| Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2970 |
From J. M. Rodwell 6 December 1860
Summary
Discusses Origin, suggesting confirmation might come from studying reproduction in microscopic organisms.
Gives anecdotal observations of blind rats and white cats.
| Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3012 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (2) |
