To Edward Cresy 19 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4639 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4643 |
From Robert Swinhoe [before 1 October 1865?]
Summary
Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.
Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Oct 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4727 |
From W. D. Fox [before 26 October 1865]
Summary
His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.
[Isolated fragments only.]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 Oct 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 204 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4903 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865
Summary
Has returned from holiday. Family news.
Concern over Hooker’s health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4905 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 October [1865]
Summary
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4907 |
From Charles Shaw 3 October 1865
Summary
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
Author: | Charles Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4908 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
To Samuel Butler 6 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.
Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
Date: | 6 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4911 |
To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
To Frederic William Farrar 11 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 11 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4913 |
To J. T. Moggridge 13 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 13 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4914 |
From J. T. Moggridge 14 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants".
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.2: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4915 |
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
From Hermann Kindt 17 October 1865
Summary
Requests CD copy out a passage of Origin and autograph it for publication.
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4917 |
From Edward Cresy 18 October 1865
Summary
How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4918 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Kindt, Hermann | (2) |
Newton, Alfred | (2) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kindt, Hermann | (3) |
Newton, Alfred | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |