CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To Charles Lovegrove 14 December [1859–71]
Summary
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859-71] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13822 |
To Matthias Mull [after 24 November 1859]
Summary
Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mathias Mull |
Date: | [after 24 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 424a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13829 |
To John William Lubbock 2 April [1859]
Summary
Comments on water rising in their wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1846 |
To John Innes 4 March [1859]
Summary
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 4 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2232 |
To A. C. Ramsay 24 June [1859]
Summary
Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 24 June [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2291 |
To Syms Covington 16 January 1859
Summary
Regrets SC’s increasing deafness, but advises that aurists are humbugs.
Tells of illnesses in family and his own poor health. "I never know 24 hours comfort."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 16 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | Brian Sirl (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2400 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859]
Summary
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2401 |
To John Phillips 21 January [1859]
Summary
Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 21 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2402 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 January [1859]
Summary
Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.
CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2403 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January [1859]
Summary
CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.
More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2406 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 February [1859]
Summary
Wants white breeds of poultry.
Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2407 |
To John Lubbock [6 February 1859]
Summary
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [6 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2408 |
To John Phillips 8 February [1859]
Summary
His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of receiving the [Wollaston] Medal. He will ask Lyell to receive it on his behalf.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 8 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2410 |
To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 9 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2411 |
To W. D. Fox [12 February 1859]
Summary
Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.
The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.
His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [12 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2412 |
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
To Mary Butler 20 February [1859]
Summary
Sends naturalists’ autographs.
Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Butler |
Date: | 20 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2416 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (199) |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Murray, John (b) | (25) |
Lyell, Charles | (23) |
Huxley, T. H. | (15) |