From A. R. Wallace 9 January 1880
Summary
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B142–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12412 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 October 1880
Summary
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12752 |
To A. R. Wallace 3 November 1880
Summary
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12791 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 November 1880
Summary
Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:
1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;
2. Cessation of the glacial period;
3. Rate of deposit and geological time;
4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.
Charge of speculative explanations is just.
Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B145–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12803 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 November 1880
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12835 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 January [1881]
Summary
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12985 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 January 1881
Summary
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12994 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
From A. R. Wallace 29 January 1881
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13033 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July 1881
Summary
Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.
His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 July 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13243 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B156–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13413 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 November 1881
Summary
At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507F |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 May 1857
Summary
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 May 1857 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2086 |
From A. R. Wallace [27 September 1857]
Summary
Refers to CD’s letter of "May last". ARW’s views on order of succession of species are in accordance with CD’s.
Disappointed that his paper ["On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 16 (1855): 184–96] elicited no discussion; now ARW is trying to prove it. Paper merely states the theory.
On black jaguars breeding inter se: ARW has never heard of a parti-coloured one.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2145 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 December 1857
Summary
Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.
Reference to differences on subsidence.
Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2192 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace to J. D. Hooker 6 October 1858
Summary
Thanks JDH and Lyell for the actions they have taken with respect to ARW’s and CD’s papers. Considers himself fortunate to have been given any merit for his work. Is pleased that his correspondence has led to the earlier publication of CD’s work. It would have caused him "much pain & regret" if CD had made ARW’s paper public unaccompanied by his own views.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct 1858 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2337 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
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