From W. E. Darwin 9 September [1867]
Summary
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4609F |
From John Brodie Innes 1 September [1867]
Summary
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5205 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address;
disagrees on Mary Barton.
Seeks name of the Mimulus on which he has experimented [see Variation 2: 128].
Requests flowers of yellow variety of Mirabilis jalapa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5621 |
From Federico Delpino 5 September 1867
Summary
Support CD’s views on variability of species, but believes they must be interpreted "spiritualisticamente".
Cross-fertilisation in the Asclepiadaceae.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5622 |
From W. B. Dawkins 7 September 1867
Summary
Variation between individuals of a species.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5623 |
From Thomas Rivers 9 September 1867
Summary
Reports on a curious cross in peach varieties, in which the male made a firm large peach into a fruit more almond-like than itself.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5624 |
From J. V. Carus 11 September 1867
Summary
JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5625 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5627 |
To J. V. Carus 16 September 1867
Summary
Thanks JVC for his biography [of CD].
Has almost finished first proofs of Variation.
Has difficulty in answering JVC’s queries about dogs because of differences in German names and breeds. Refers him to A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1868] and, on pigeons, to Gottlob Neumeister’s book [Das Ganze der Taubenzucht (1837)].
Hopes JVC is not discouraged by first volume. Thinks second will be more interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 16 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 10–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5628 |
From Andrew Murray 16 September 1867
Summary
AM discusses his new journal [J. Travel & Nat. Hist.] of which general opinion seems to be favourable. Has room for the occasional contributor, if CD knows of any.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5629 |
From John Murray 19 September [1867]
Summary
Sends CD cheque for £250, two-thirds of the profits on the sale of 700 copies of Origin, 4th ed.
Hopes he has found a suitable indexer for Variation.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 350, 524 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5630 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5631 |
To John Murray 20 September 1867
Summary
Thanks for "pleasant remittance" of £250 for 4th edition of Origin.
Glad to see that Orchids sells a little.
Hopes Variation will be more successful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5632 |
From John Murray 23 September [1867]
Summary
Schweizerbart anxious to get Variation sheets for German translation. Hopes he has found a good indexer in W. S. Dallas.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 351 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5633 |
From John Scott 24 September 1867
Summary
Sends seeds of Viola roxburghiana which produces perfect flowers in the cold season and imperfect ones in the rains, all perfectly fertile.
Leersia has not produced a single perfect flower though it grows freely.
Discusses cockatoos eating various seeds. Finds it difficult to make exact and satisfactory observations.
Appends list of Vandellia species which have perfect flowers.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 157a: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5633A |
To John Murray [24 September – 31 October 1867]
Summary
Instructions for the index to Variation
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [24 Sept – 31 Oct 1867] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5633F |
From John Lubbock 28 September [1867]
Summary
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5635 |
From Asa Gray [after 17 September 1867]
Summary
AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5636 |
To Alfred Wrigley [September 1867]
Summary
CD wishes his son Leonard to try for University this winter and intends sending Horace to a private tutor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
Date: | [Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5660 |
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