To W. E. Darwin 22 February [1863 or later]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb [1863 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13799 |
To Camilla Ludwig 21 February [1863 or later]
Summary
Asks her to translate passage of letter about treatment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
Date: | 21 Feb [1863 or later] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.620) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13825 |
To ? 28 April [1863?]
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr [1863?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 21 [January 1863]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3399 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 10 June 1863]
Summary
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 10 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 151: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585F |
To [Friedrich Emil Suchsland] [after 19 January 1863]
Summary
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Emil Suchsland |
Date: | [after 19 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3772 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [January 1863]
Summary
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3776 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
To Charles Turner [1 April – 16 June 1863?]
Summary
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Turner |
Date: | [1 Apr – 16 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3886 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
To George Henry Turnbull [16? February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Turnbull |
Date: | [16? Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3893 |
From Daniel Oliver [26 March 1863]
Summary
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894 |
From W. E. Darwin [28 June 1863?]
Summary
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894F |
To T. H. Huxley [before 25 February 1863]
Summary
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [before 25 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3896 |
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 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 February 1863 or earlier]
Summary
Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 Feb 1863 or earlier] |
Classmark: | Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897F |
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Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Darwin, Emma | (18) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (18) |
Scott, John | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (264) |
Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
Scott, John | (21) |
Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
Rivers, Thomas | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (497) |
Hooker, J. D. | (73) |
Scott, John | (38) |
Darwin, Emma | (24) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (24) |