To Francis Darwin [after 12 October 1866]
Summary
Instructions on paying a bill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13793 |
To E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13863 |
From E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4728 |
To Ernst Haeckel [20 October 1866]
Summary
Explains how to get to Down for visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [20 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5224 |
To George Bentham 1 October 1866
Summary
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5225 |
From Fritz Müller 1 and 3 October 1866
Summary
Discusses dimorphism of Oxalis; one form has 99% sterile anthers. Has found three kinds of fertile anthers.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 and 3 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 99; DAR 157a: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5226 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
To F. T. Buckland 2 October 1866
Summary
Declines contributing to Land and Water. Asks if Frank Buckland can insert a question about the feet of otter hounds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 2 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227F |
To J. D. Hooker [4 October 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5228 |
From F. T. Buckland 4 October [1866]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s patronage;
will pursue CD’s query about otter-hounds.
Remarks on continuing debate over CD’s views in BAAS.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 361 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5229 |
From E. A. Darwin 4 October [1866]
Summary
Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?
EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.
Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5230 |
From George Bentham 4 October [1866]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5231 |
From William Bowman 5 October 1866
Summary
Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5232 |
From E. A. Darwin 7 October [1866]
Summary
Disposal of Susan’s effects.
Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.
EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5233 |
From Charles Pritchard 8 October 1866
Summary
Sends sermon he preached at the BAAS Nottingham meeting ["The continuity of the schemes of nature and revelation" (1866)], in which he disagrees with CD on the gradual genesis of the human eye by natural selection.
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5234 |
From Thomas Rivers 8 October 1866
Summary
Has searched scores of purple-fruited nut-trees, but not a nut is to be found. Has heard there are some nearby and will send them as soon as he receives them.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5235 |
To Charles Lyell 9 October [1866]
Summary
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5236 |
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 October [1866]
Summary
Disposal of Susan’s effects. Legacies to CD’s children. EAD has taken the letters and papers and asked Henry [Parker] to forward the George Richmond pictures of CD and Emma.
Caroline looks "miserably ill".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B48–51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5238 |
To Charles Lyell 12 October [1866]
Summary
More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.
Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].
Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.321) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5239 |
letter | (41) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Horner, M. E. | (1) |
Land and Water | (1) |
Laxton, Thomas | (1) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Rivers, Thomas | (3) |