From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Asa Gray 10 October 1866 …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] . CD had asked his publisher, John Murray , to …
- … sent a bound copy by Murray (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 6). CD’s …
- … self-fertilised plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and nn. 13 and 14). …
- … DAR 165: 155 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 10 Oct 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and additional material (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 7). Gray had …
- … of Rhamnus from a nursery (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 9). CD had …
- … as two European examples (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 11). Acorus …
From Asa Gray 2–3 July 1862
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2–3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3637 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Gray refers to …
- … Leonard Darwin . In the letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , CD requested Gray’s …
- … in Gray’s letters (see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letter from Asa Gray, [ …
- … under similar conditions (see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ). See letter to Asa …
- … Torrey 1843 , 1: 428). In the letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , CD discussed the …
- … 11 October 1861 . In the letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , CD asked Gray to observe …
- … 1862 . Royer trans. 1862. See letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . As president of the …
- … Correspondence vol. 8). See letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . As Gray was over 50, …
From Asa Gray [10 July 1860]
Summary
Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2819 |
From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1866]
Summary
L. Agassiz’s evidence [for glaciation of America] is very weak.
Thanks AG for arranging for American edition of Variation, but doubts that the book will be successful.
Has found no differences in pollen of Rhamnus so cannot conjecture whether it is dimorphic.
The common oxlip of England is certainly a hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip whereas Primula elatior is a good species.
Reports experiments on the relative vigour of seedlings from cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5210 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Asa Gray 10 September [1866] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (92) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Sept [1866] Asa Gray …
- … postage stamps for his collection (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , …
- … 10–20 June [1862] and 28 July [1862] ). See letter from Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 . …
- … Asa Gray, 27 August 1866 ). Gray had enclosed specimens of the flowers of Rhamnus lanceolatus with his letter of 7 August 1866 . In CD’s notes on R. lanceolatus (DAR 109: A42 and 44), a table of pollen-grain sizes indicates a slight difference between those of long-styled and those of short-styled forms. In Forms of flowers , pp. 295–6, CD noted a ratio of 10 …
To John Murray 18 [June 1862]
Summary
Superb, but exaggerated, review [of Orchids, by M. J. Berkeley] in London Review [& wkly J. Polit. 4 (1862): 553–4]. Asa Gray thinks almost as highly. "I have not been a fool, as I thought I was, to publish." The Athenæum review will hinder sales greatly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 [June 1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3609 |
From Asa Gray 10 June 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Asa Gray 10 June 1877 …
- … DAR 165: 197 Asa Gray Herbarium of Harvard 10 June 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ). Joseph Dalton Hooker departed for New York on 28 June 1877, and toured America with Gray, reaching the Rocky Mountains in late July (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 205–17). The annotations are probably train times for the visit to Down made by the Burgesses on 10 …
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
To Asa Gray 26[–7] November [1862]
Summary
Discusses AG’s article ["Dimorphism", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 419–20]. Does not like the terms "dioecio-dimorphism" or "precocious fertilisation". Discusses the separation of sexes in plants; cannot doubt that hermaphroditism is the aboriginal state.
Discusses AG’s observations on orchids and his review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26[–7] Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3830 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 . CD refers in his second …
- … to a postscript to the letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862 , that is now missing. In …
- … 43, 2: 38–9). See also letters from Asa Gray , [10 July 1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8) …
- … E. Darwin, [31 May 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Gray wrote on CD’s …
- … Hooker, [18 October 1862] ). See letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] and n. 24. CD had …
- … and 5 September 1862, and letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] , 23[–4] July [1862] , …
- … papers 2: 106). See n. 10, above. See also letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] . See …
- … Asa Gray, 23 November [1862] ; however, since the two letters have separate salutations and valedictions, they have been treated separately. In his letter of 10 …
- … 10, Appendix II)). In his account of strawberries ( Variation 1: 351–4), CD noted that the European and American species could be crossed ‘with some difficulty’, but considered it ‘improbable that hybrids sufficiently fertile to be worth cultivation will ever be thus produced. ’ He continued (p. 352): ‘This fact is surprising, as these forms structurally are not widely distinct, and are sometimes connected in the districts where they grow wild, as I hear from Professor Asa Gray , …
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
To a bookseller 6 September [1860]
Summary
Asks that Fraser’s Magazine for July or the review from it on Origin (Hopkins 1860) be sent to Asa Gray.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bookseller. |
Date: | 6 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2906F |
From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863]
Summary
Possible dimorphism in Phlox.
Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.
Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10–16] June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4198 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863] …
- … DAR 165: 136 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. [10–16] June [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … probably written between 10 and 16 June 1863. See letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] . …
- … 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95. DSB : Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90. Dupree, Anderson Hunter. 1959. Asa Gray, …
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … uncomf—’. See Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862 and 9 …
- … Africa (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to …
- … 274–5. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 17 November 1862 , letter to Asa …
- … 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). His results …
- … for Leonard’s collection (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, …
- … cultivated (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and 26[– …
- … Boott (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). However, in …
- … 10–20 June [1862] , and letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). Gray’s letter of 24 …
- … from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862 and 9 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD …
- … 10, letters to G. H. K. Thwaites, 15 June [1862] and 29 December [1862] ). See also Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, [ …
- … 10). CD’s experimental notes on M. repens , made in 1864 and 1865, are in DAR 110: B84–93; his results are given in Forms of flowers , pp. 125–7. CD had read Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper’s Journal of a naturalist in the United States ( Cooper 1855 ) the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, …
From Asa Gray 10 and 14 March [1871]
Summary
Has received CD’s new book [Descent].
Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 and 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7567 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 21 April [1862] and nn. 11 and 13. See letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] and n. 2. …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Asa Gray, [10 January 1860] ). The American Journal of …
- … Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] . Gray’s name also appears on CD’s presentation list for Orchids (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … Asa Gray , 12 March [1861] , 5 June [1861] , and 21 July [1861] ; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 July – 10 …
To Asa Gray 19 January [1863]
Summary
Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.
Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?
Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3927 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Gray 1862b . A. Gray 1862a and 1862b. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, …
- … DAB ; see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 5 September 1862 and 22 …
- … 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). Letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence …
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 , and letter to Asa Gray, …
- … 10 November 1862 , and letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] . Sprengel 1793 . …
- … to the letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD completed his …
- … See also letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and nn. 9 and 10. CD was interested in what …
From Asa Gray 10 November 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3799 |
To John Murray 23 October [1866]
Summary
A letter from Asa Gray informs CD that Ticknor & Fields will not publish a new edition of Origin to compete with Appleton’s unrevised edition. They recommend sending copies of the English edition for the American market.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 151–152) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5253 |
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