To M. T. Masters [July 1875]
Summary
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [July 1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038F |
To M. T. Masters 10 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 10 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10057 |
To M. T. Masters 10 October [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 10 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10637 |
To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
To M. T. Masters [after 25 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [after 25 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12859 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 April [1860]
Summary
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2749 |
To M. T. Masters 13 April [1860]
Summary
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 338 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2759 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 26 February [1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 26 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3459 |
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
To M. T. Masters 24 July [1862]
Summary
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3663 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 6 April [1863]
Summary
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 6 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4076 |
To M. T. Masters [8–13 April 1863]
Summary
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [8–13 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4091 |
To M. T. Masters 20 September [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 20 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4618 |
To M. T. Masters 25 April [1860]
Summary
Glad to hear of MTM’s papers [? "On a peloria and semidouble flower of Ophrys aranifera, Huds.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 207–11 and "Observations on the morphology and anatomy of the genus Restio, Linn.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 211–55].
CD doubts the value, for origin of species, of parallels between peloria in "distinct groups".
Gärtner proved the stigma can select its own pollen from a mixture of foreign pollens. But much evidence shows varieties of same species are prepotent over a plant’s own pollen.
MTM’s father [William] believes that variation goes on for a long time once it has commenced.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4818 |
To M. T. Masters [28 March – 5 April 1867]
Summary
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5468 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 21 March [1868]
Summary
Sends his niece’s [Lucy Wedgwood] observations on worms, vouches for her accuracy, and suggests the piece be inserted in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see "Worms", Gard. Chron. (1868): 324].
Adds his thanks for a "very kind review" of his book [Variation, Gard. Chron. (1868): 124].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 21 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6032 |
To M. T. Masters 9 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information about a dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 9 May [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.395) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7746 |
To M. T. Masters 31 August [1871]
Summary
Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 31 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7919F |
To M. T. Masters 29 September [1873]
Summary
CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 29 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077 |
To M. T. Masters 7 August [1874]
Summary
Discusses flower structures of the hop.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9593 |