To ? [after June 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13802 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 March 1868]
Summary
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 31 January [1868]
Summary
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 31 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2670 |
To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. B. Baillière et ses fils |
Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415F |
To Henry Hennessy 10 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for papers.
Discusses case of the Asturian plants and HH’s view of their introduction through the agency of man. Although botanists question whether plants are thus introduced, those working closely on insular floras are admitting this view more and more.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Hennessy |
Date: | 10 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (24 June 1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744A |
To John Scott [after 8 January 1868]
Summary
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5352 |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
To Moritz Wagner [April–June 1868]
Summary
Thanks MW for his essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und das Migrationsgesetz der Organismen (1868)]. Is highly gratified that MW agrees with him to a considerable extent.
Almost wishes that he could believe in the importance of isolation to the same extent as MW.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner |
Date: | [Apr–June 1868] |
Classmark: | LL 3: 157; DAR 148: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5760 |
To Charles Lyell [9 March 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5768 |
To Francis Darwin 8 [June? 1868]
Summary
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 [June? 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5769 |
To Roland Trimen 2 January [1868]
Summary
CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 2 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5772 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 5 January [1868]
Summary
Congratulates FH on graft-hybrid of potato. Importance of FH’s discovery to be discussed in Variation [2d ed., 1: 420].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 5 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5777 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for plant names.
H. C. Watson a renegade about natural selection. Discusses HCW’s views.
F. Müller’s letter enclosed.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s experiments are splendid for Pangenesis [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 39–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5779 |
To John Murray 9 January [1868]
Summary
CD exasperated by Dallas’ delay in finishing index [for Variation]. "I am prepared to throw the Index overboard."
Thinks JM should reconsider publishing a translation of Brehm’s Thierleben. It is excellent and would "sell largely".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 178–179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5781 |
To W. S. Dallas [14 January 1868]
Summary
CD was frustrated by the delay [in producing index for Variation], but was quite mollified by WSD’s note; is sorry the work turned out so badly for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | [14 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5783 |
To Roland Trimen 16 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 16 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5790 |
Darwin, C. R. | (323) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (11) |