To Thomas Rivers 7 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".
Asks for information about roses.
Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3906 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … variation". Asks for information about roses. Strange that great changes in peaches are …
- … London 2 (1817): 160–1. Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … of all the fine leading varieties of roses … The whole arranged so as to form a companion …
- … of the Sawbridgeworth collection of roses, published annually. London: the proprietor. …
- … Has a common Rose produced by …
- … seed a moss-rose? What can be the origin of the Austrian Bramble, which seems …
- … found it so) & which sport into a yellow rose: may not this be case like Laburnum? — If …
- … in CD’s discussion of bud-variation in roses as having ‘informed’ CD about particular …
- … However, in Variation 1: 380, CD discussed the relationship between various moss-roses and …
- … the Provence rose, twice citing Rivers. See the letter to Thomas Rivers, 11 January [1863] …
- … shall work up such cases as I have about Roses—sports which seem very numerous, & which I …
- … I do want very much to know, whether you have sown seed of any Moss Roses, & whether the …
- … seedlings were moss-roses. — …
To Thomas Rivers 11 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for "rich and valuable" letter [missing].
Has read TR’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Seedling fruits – plums", (1863): 27] – "a treasure to me".
Questions about seedling peaches that approach almonds.
Asks whether TR has ever observed varieties of plants growing close to other varieties for several generations without being affected by crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3910 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … flowers will be grand to quote. I am extremely glad to hear about the seedling moss-roses. …
- … That case of seedling like Scotch Rose, unless you are …
- … sure that no Scotch rose grew near (& it is unlikely that you can remember) must, one …
- … asked specifically about bud-variation in roses. The Baronne Prevost case was described in …
- … 7 January [1863] , CD asked whether Rivers had ‘sown seed of any Moss Roses, & whether the …
- … seedlings were moss roses’. …
- … He also wondered whether ‘a common Rose produced by …
- … seed a moss-rose’. In Variation 1: 380, CD reported …
- … Rivers’s information that ‘his seedlings from the old single moss-rose almost always …
- … produced moss-roses’, and also that he …
- … raised two or three roses of the Provence class from the …
- … seed of the old single moss-rose. Rivers’s article on seedling plums appeared in the …
To Thomas Rivers 28 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for letter [missing] and help.
Asks about the effect said to be produced on the stock by a graft.
Health prevents accepting TR’s invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in Periodical & abstracted in M.S. your book on Roses, & several times I thought I would …
- … Society of London. 1888. Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … of all the fine leading varieties of roses … The whole arranged so as to form a companion …
- … of the Sawbridgeworth collection of roses, published annually. London: the proprietor. …
To Thomas Rivers 23 December [1862]
Summary
CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3874 |
To Thomas Rivers 15 January [1863]
Summary
Particularly interested in TR’s information about peaches. Accepts offer of double-flowering peach-trees.
Will build a small hothouse for experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3918 |
To Thomas Rivers 1 February [1863]
Summary
Answers TR’s query about stomata.
CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3962 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … plums ( Variation 1: 375), and various rose varieties produced other varieties ( Variation …
To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … two fruit trees, including a ‘double rose flowered chinese peach’, for CD’s greenhouse in …
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
Summary
< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Romanes, G. J. (138) Rose, C. B. (1) …
Darwin and working from home
Summary
Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the days: 7 am Rose and took a short walk. …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hog. on Culture of Carnation. Auricula. Polyanth tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. …
- … rs . Gores Manual of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] …
- … 119: 8a Gore, Catherine Grace Frances. 1838. The rose fancier’s manual . London. …
- … . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … Cistineæ. The natural order of cistus, or rock rose … With … directions for their cultivation . …
Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … – a similar concept to modern tectonic plates – that rose and fell as the molten material beneath …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
Matches: 1 hits
- … scientific methodologies. The ecological movement, which rose to prominence in the 1970s, and which …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree. In all organic beings the …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the roads were a succession of beaches formed as the land rose from the sea (‘Observations on the …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
Summary
Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin would be produced by the London photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Barraud produced both …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ridiculing Darwin ‘badly & Huxley savagely’. Huxley rose in response and ‘answered admirably’, …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 1 hits
- … GRAY …he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
