From Asa Gray 14 January [1868]1
Jany. 14th.
Dear Darwin
I have some time ago read sheets of 2d vol. up to p. 416— Next sheet & title alone wanted. Have read—in snatches up to Pangenesis—but not that yet.2
Yours ever. | A. Gray
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 18 November 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
CD had begun sending sheets of the first volume of Variation to Gray in October 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1867]). Chapter 27 (Variation 2: 357–404) was headed ‘Provisional hypothesis of pangenesis’.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Has read sheets of Variation up to Pangenesis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5786
- From
- Asa Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 160
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5786,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5786.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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