To Charles Lyell 22 February [1866]
Summary
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5015 |
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
To John William Salter 28 February [1862]
Summary
CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 28 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5019 |
To William Herbert [c. 1 April 1839]
Summary
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Date: | [c. 1 Apr 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-502 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1866]
Summary
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5020 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
To Robert Caspary 4 March 1866
Summary
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 4 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5026 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
To William Bowman 10 March [1863]
Summary
Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5030 |
To Charles Lyell 12 [March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5032 |
To Robert McLachlan 23 March [1866]
Summary
Thanks for the paper on Sterrha (McLachlan 1865).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
Date: | 23 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (June 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038F |
To Albert Müller 28 March [1866]
Summary
Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert Müller |
Date: | 28 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5040 |
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 282, 282b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5046 |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 April 1866]
Summary
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5051 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
To Rudolf Suchsland 4 April 1866
Summary
Cannot support another edition of Origin, so unable to send English pages. Suggests some of his other works that might be worth translating into German.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Date: | 4 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054F |
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
To Rudolf Suchsland 21 April [1866]
Summary
Asks for additional details of Confessions of a Metaphysician.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Date: | 21 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057F |
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