From John Maurice Herbert 26 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on George’s success.
Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5802 |
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 27 January [1868]
Summary
Is sending a copy of Variation [to be published in a few days]. It cost more labour than it is worth.
George Darwin is Second Wrangler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 27 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5803 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [January 1868]
Summary
Grieved by Wollaston’s troubles. Offers contribution of £100. "How foolish men are in their investments."
Delight about George’s success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5804 |
From Henry Holland 27 January [1868]
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5805 |
From Edward Cresy 27 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George’s being Second Wrangler at Cambridge.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5806 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1868
Summary
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 189–190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5807 |
To Julius von Haast 28 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 28 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5808 |
From Julius Victor Carus 28 January 1868
Summary
Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5809 |
From Alfred Newton 29 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5810 |
From Alexander F. Boardman 29 January 1868
Summary
Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5811 |
From James Paget 29 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5812 |
To Edward Cresy 29 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 29 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5813 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 30 January 1868]
Summary
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5814 |
To J. M. Herbert 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JMH for his congratulations.
Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5815 |
To Fritz Müller 30 January [1868]
Summary
Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5816 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations.
Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."
Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.
Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5817 |
From John Lubbock 30 January 1868
Summary
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5818 |
From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5819 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1868]
Summary
Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.
Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.
Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5820 |
From Thomas Rivers 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5821 |
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