To A. R. Wallace 22 July [1875]
Summary
Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.
CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10088 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10322 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 December 1875
Summary
Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 June 1876
Summary
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10531 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 June 1876
Summary
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 17 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10538 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 June 1876
Summary
Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10550 |
To A. R. Wallace 31 August 1877
Summary
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 31 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11121 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 September [1877]
Summary
Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11127 |
To A. R. Wallace 16 September 1878
Summary
Supports Epping Forest appointment.
Continues work on vegetable physiology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 16 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11695 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 January 1880
Summary
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12401 |
To A. R. Wallace 3 November 1880
Summary
High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 3 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12791 |
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 January [1881]
Summary
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12985 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July 1881
Summary
Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.
His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 July 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13243 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 November 1881
Summary
At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507F |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 May 1857
Summary
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 May 1857 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2086 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 December 1857
Summary
Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.
Reference to differences on subsidence.
Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2192 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
To A. R. Wallace 6 April 1859
Summary
First part of Origin MS is with Murray;
CD hopes he has noticed ARW’s work fairly.
ARW is right in thinking that CD was led to believe that selection was the principle of change from studying domesticated productions and that after reading Malthus he "saw at once how to apply this principle". Geographical distribution and geological relations of extinct and recent inhabitants of S. America first led him to the subject, "Especially case of Galapagos Islds". Hooker and Lubbock are full converts and Huxley now believes in species mutation. "We shall live to see all the younger men converts."
Praises ARW’s work and spirit.
CD had actually written a letter to ARW stating he would not publish before him but was persuaded by Lyell and Hooker to allow them to act "as they thought fair & honourably".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 6 Apr 1859 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2449 |
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