To Henry Walter Bates 12 January [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray will try to get HWB’s paper reviewed.
Also mentions that he (CD) wrote a short review of it for Natural History Review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Asks whether bees or Lepidoptera visit flowers of Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3911 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863]
Summary
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3945 |
To H. W. Bates 4 March [1863]
Summary
CD relates Asa Gray’s pleasure over HWB’s paper and Gray’s plans to write abstract [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4022 |
To H. W. Bates 9 April [1863]
Summary
Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.
Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4080 |
To H. W. Bates 18 April [1863]
Summary
Has finished vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons]. CD praises book as "best ever published in England".
The review in the Athenæum was cold, as always, and insolent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4107 |
To H. W. Bates 30 April [1863]
Summary
After finishing vol. 2 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons], CD still has only praise. Remarks that his family is also enjoying the book. He regrets having finished, since he so enjoyed the descriptions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4132 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bates, H. W. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
