To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1867]
Summary
On recent instalment of "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 50]. Approves of JDH’s abstract of argument for transport of species [i.e., migration, as opposed to continental extension hypothesis].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5373 |
To J. V. Carus 22 January [1867]
Summary
Answers JVC’s questions about the rock-thrush, the tortoise-shell cat, and the logger-headed duck.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 64–65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5375 |
To Alfred Newton 23 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376A |
To J. D. Hooker [23 January 1867]
Summary
Would like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel’s photograph, but JDH should give CD’s address to FAWM.
Thanks for letter and glad Frances Harriet Hooker goes on well.
Do not send St Helena earth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376F |
To John Murray 27 January [1867]
Summary
Hopes JM’s friend will give his judgment [on Variation] soon; and urges JM to come to a decision about publishing. CD believes it will have "a fair sale".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 27 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 153–154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5379 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 January [1867]
Summary
On final instalment of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 75]; rejoices at extent of their agreement.
Some criticisms of JDH’s position on geographical affinities, and volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5381 |
To John Murray 29 January [1867]
Summary
CD agrees to JM’s proposal of half-profits. Thinks it a mistake to print only 750 copies. The agreement on half-profit is for first edition only. CD estimates his book at a higher value than JM does.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 162–163) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5382 |
To John Murray 31 January [1867]
Summary
Is convinced his chapter on man [for Variation] will excite plenty of attention and abuse, which he supposes is as good as praise for selling a book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 164–165) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5384 |
To Stephen Paul Engleheart? [April 1867?]
Summary
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
Date: | [Apr 1867?] |
Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5385 |
To William Turner 1 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5386 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
To Fritz Müller 7 February [1867]
Summary
CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.
Orchid self-sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 7 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5393 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
To William Turner 11 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 11 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5398 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [13–16 February 1867]
Summary
Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [13–16 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5402 |
To J. V. Carus 17 February [1867]
Summary
CD thinks JVC’s preface is fair to Bronn. Regrets JVC has not added notes of his own, but, having dropped Bronn’s appendix, it is perhaps best to leave the text without comment. Rejoices that the German public can now judge the Origin fairly.
Has written to W. B. Carpenter for a specimen of Eozoon to send to JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 6–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5403 |
To A. R. Wallace [24 June 1867]
Summary
CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [24 June 1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5404 |
To Edward Blyth [18 February 1867]
Summary
Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [18 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5406 |
To Edward Blyth [19 February 1867]
Summary
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [19 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5407 |
To J. P. M. Weale 22 February [1867]
Summary
Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5409 |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Murray, John (b) | (18) |
Carus, J. V. | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (195) |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Murray, John (b) | (18) |
Carus, J. V. | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |