From E. A. Darwin [before 11 October 1868]
Summary
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5746 |
From J. J. Weir [before 30 May 1868]
Summary
Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5748 |
From Richard Barwell [1868?]
Author: | Richard Barwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 52a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5749 |
From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5750 |
From B. D. Walsh [before 31 October 1868]
Summary
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5755 |
From Osbert Salvin [1868?]
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5758 |
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 |
From W. D. Fox [before 14 May 1868]
Summary
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5762 |
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 |
From Hermann Müller January [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5770 |
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 |
From Alfred Wrigley 2 January 1868
Summary
Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.
Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5773 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 2 January 1868
Summary
Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.
Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.
F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5774 |
From C. S. Vesselofski 3 January 1868
Summary
CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5775 |
From Edward Blyth 4 January 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5776 |
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 |
From F. A. von Hartsen 5 January 1868
Summary
Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.
Author: | Frederik Anthony von Hartsen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5778 |
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 |
From William Sweetland Dallas 8 January 1868
Summary
Has sent off last portion of index [to Variation]. Hopes CD will be pleased with it. Will never undertake such labour again. He fears it has been an unfavourable way to make CD’s acquaintance. Trusts to CD’s goodness not to hate his name for the rest of his life.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5780 |
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Blyth, Edward | (20) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
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Weir, J. J. | (37) |
Wallace, A. R. | (31) |
Blyth, Edward | (23) |