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 H. C. Watson 8 [August 1862]
Summary
Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Date: | 8 [Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3646 |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]
Summary
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [2–3 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3678 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 August [1862]
Summary
WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 12 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3687 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
To Asa Gray 21 August [1862]
Summary
Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.
Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.
Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.
Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3692 |
To John Lubbock 21 August [1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [August 1862]
Summary
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3696 |
To John Murray 24 August [1862]
Summary
CD is well content with sale of 768 copies [of Orchids]. Hopes and expects remainder will ultimately be sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 125–126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3699 |
To Camilla Ludwig 26 August [1862]
Summary
Family news; mostly an account of ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
Date: | 26 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3700 |
To K. E. S., L. C., and M. S. Wedgwood 4 [August 1862]
Summary
Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.
Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Date: | 4 [Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4373 |
letter | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |