To Camille Dareste 20 November 1869
Summary
Glad Dareste is candidate for Paris Chair. No subject more important than modification of structure by direct action of changed conditions, and Dareste has thrown much light on subject. Believes monstrosities cannot be separated from slighter variations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Date: | 20 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7001 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 November 1869
Summary
Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.
Will get the Kerner book.
Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.
Raises questions about the genealogical tree.
Serves Mlle Royer right.
Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 39–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7002 |
From Charles Layton 22 November 1869
Summary
Appleton & Co. wish to be supplied with set of stereotype plates of CD’s new book [Descent] for American market; will pay for cost of plates, and 10% of sales to CD.
Also desire plates for new edition of the Origin.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 83a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7003 |
From George Henslow 22 November 1869
Summary
Observations on fertilisation of Lapageria rosea by E. G. Henderson, florist of St John’s Wood.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7004 |
From George Bentham 23 November 1869
Summary
Has heard that CD thinks GB is wrong on some points in his [Presidential] Address [to Linnean Society, see 6793]. Asks CD to point out where he is wrong.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7005 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 November [1869]
Summary
Sends title of Kerner’s book [see 6997] and comments that AK does not give the one parent form of the genus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7006 |
To Charles Layton 24 November [1869]
Summary
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Marshall Rare Books (dealer) (January 2022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7007 |
From A. B. Meyer 24 November 1869
Summary
Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.
Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7008 |
From Charles Layton 25 November 1869
Summary
Asks CD to have stereotype plates made of new edition of Origin [5th English], if type still standing, though Appleton will reset type if necessary. Warns there is smaller audience in the U. S. for "good scientific books".
Appleton would also like plates made of new book [Descent] when possible.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7009 |
From Charles Boner 25 November [1869]
Summary
Gives account of inherited blindness in a family,
and observations contravening CD’s view in Variation that sheep and other domestic animals never run wild.
Author: | Charles Boner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7010 |
To George Bentham 25 November [1869]
Summary
CD finds GB’s address interesting; assures him that he has never said GB was wrong on any point, but that there were differences between them, which he now thinks are not great.
Comments on specific parts of the address [see 6793]: colonisation, variability of large and small genera, descent from a single parent or pair of parents, rapid multiplication and change in species, isolation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 25 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 678–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7011 |
From George Bentham 26 November 1869
Summary
Comments on CD’s observations on his address; clarifies his view of the importance of isolation, the effect of climate, the plants of S. Africa and Australia.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012 |
To Charles Layton 26 November [1869]
Summary
The 5th edition of Origin was printed some months previously and stereotypes cannot be supplied.
If Appletons will reprint the 5th edition of Origin in America, he pledges to supply stereotypes, if possible, or the sheets as printed if not, of his new book (Descent).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
Date: | 26 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (13 June 2019, lot 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012F |
To T. H. Farrer [27 November 1869]
Summary
Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".
[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [27 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7013 |
To A. B. Meyer 27 November [1869]
Summary
Not willing to sit for photographer again.
ABM’s translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago has not yet arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
Date: | 27 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7014 |
From T. H. Farrer 28 November 1869
Summary
Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.
Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7015 |
From C. S. Bate 29 November 1869
Summary
Reports a case of a smooth-leaved holly tree with one branch of prickly leaves; is willing to supply more details.
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7016 |
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