From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1867
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: A81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5387 |
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
From Asa Gray 26 March 1867
Summary
Has printed copies of CD’s queries [on expression] and will distribute them.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5462 |
From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867
Summary
Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].
Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.
[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5478 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker [after 6 July 1867]
Summary
Sends W. M. Canby’s observations on the carnivorous powers of Dionaea. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 301, 310, 313.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 6 July 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5580 |
To Asa Gray 8 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for sending W. M. Canby’s letter on Dionaea. Although already familiar with the facts concerning the secretions, the letter "fires me up to complete and publish on Drosera, Dionæa, etc."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 557 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5602A |
From J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray 22 August 1867
Summary
The two names CD could not read are "Atnah" and "Espyox" [see 5478].
He and George Thurber would like CD’s autograph.
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5613 |
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 Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
From Asa Gray 18 November 1867
Summary
Is reading sheets of Variation.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5682 |
| letter | (10) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Rothrock, J. T. | (2) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Rothrock, J. T. | (2) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
