To ? 24 August [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Aug [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13880 |
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
To John Lubbock 1 [and 2] August [1861]
Summary
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 1 and 2 Aug 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 49 (EH 88206493) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3224 |
To John Lubbock [2 August 1861]
Summary
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [2 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3225 |
To J. D. Hooker [11 August 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [11 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: : 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3226 |
To Charles Lyell 6 August [1861]
Summary
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3227 |
To John Lubbock 9 August [1861]
Summary
JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 9 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 48 (EH 88206492) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3228 |
To John Lubbock 10 August [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 46 (EH 88206490) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3229 |
To Charles Lyell 13 [August 1861]
Summary
Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.
Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 [Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3230 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [August 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3231 |
To A. G. More 13 [August 1861]
Summary
Has found hundreds of Spiranthes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 13 [Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3232 |
To John Lubbock 14 August [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 47 (EH 88206491) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3233 |
To John Obadiah Westwood 15 August [1861]
Summary
As a general rule CD thinks it best to deposit specimens in the British Museum, and "bitterly regrets" he did not send all his specimens there. Nevertheless he agrees to sending his crustaceans to the Oxford Museum.
CD is at work on Orchids. He would be greatly obliged if JOW could send him specimens of pollen-masses attached to head or base of proboscis of moths.
Asks for reference to Morren’s paper that JOW mentioned before [see 2862].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 15 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3234 |
To Charles Lyell 21 August [1861]
Summary
Suggests change in a passage [in MS] of CL’s [Antiquity of man (1863)] dealing with adaptations for travel.
Comments on review of Origin by F. W. Hutton [Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8].
Emphasises importance of variability for natural selection.
Discusses possiblity of intelligent causes in variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.261) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3235 |
To Williams & Norgate 25 August [1861]
Summary
Instructions to a book seller.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 25 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3235F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 29 August [1861]
Summary
Asks for return of his MS [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 29 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Victoria and Albert Museum (Baillie collection, MSL/1959/3736/16, Pressmark 86.QQ.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3237 |
To Neil Arnott 29 August [1861]
Summary
Found NA’s A survey of human progress [1861] on his return home after two months’ absence. Is glad to see NA kept his intention of publishing on this subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Neil Arnott |
Date: | 29 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (Catalogue 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3237F |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3238 |
To George Maw 31 August [1861]
Summary
Would welcome any facts on correlation, or GM’s criticisms. Explains how natural selection could produce apparent correlation of characters, but feels GM’s Pelargonium example must arise from the leaves and petals being similarly affected at an early stage by an unknown cause.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 31 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3239 |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Arnott, Neil | (1) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Arnott, Neil | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Maw, George | (1) |
More, A. G. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |