From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1867–72?] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
From John William Salter 4 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4969 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 7 January 1867]
Summary
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 134a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343 |
From Fritz Müller 1 January 1867
Summary
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5344A |
From John Murray 2 January [1867]
Summary
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5345 |
From John Murray 9 January [1867]
Summary
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5354 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 11 January 1867
Summary
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5357 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 131–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5358 |
From Thomas Belt 12 January 1867
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 181–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5359 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 14 January 1867
Summary
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5360 |
From John Lubbock 16 January 1867
Summary
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5366 |
From Julius Victor Carus 18 January 1867
Summary
Asks CD questions relating to the revised translation of Origin.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5370 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1867
Summary
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 135–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5372 |
From Alfred Newton 21 January 1867
Summary
Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 22–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5374 |
From John Scott 22 January 1867
Summary
Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.
Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.
Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.
Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.
Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.
Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 24 January 1867
Summary
Describes progress in preparation of third German edition of the Origin. Asks about use of photograph for edition.
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5377 |
From Alexander F. Boardman 26 January 1867
Summary
Encloses letter written a week ago. Letter and enclosure speculate on origins of human races in relation to geological and political changes, according to a theory of progressive development.
Was sorry CD wrote so little on man in Origin.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 226, 226/1, 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5378 |
From John Murray 28 January [1867]
Summary
JM will publish [Variation] "coute qui coute", paying CD half the profits.
Thinks he can count on 500 purchases of what he calls the "Pièces Justificatives" of the Origin and will print 750 copies.
His literary friend found it "difficult of digestion".
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 344 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5380 |
From John Murray 30 January [1867]
Summary
First portion of Variation MS has been set up. Murray will not decide on number to be printed until he has read a good portion. The agreement applies only to the first edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5383 |
letter | (27) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Wedgwood, F. J. | (2) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Wedgwood, F. J. | (2) |